Friday, August 23, 2013

Mentorship program

From the PG:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/pittsburgh-schools-to-continue-mentorship-program-for-black-teens-700251/

3 comments:

Questioner said...

The article notes that the GPA for participants increased by .026; a .026 increase would be for example from 2.0 to 2.026, or 2.5 to 2.526. It would be helpful to know if this is even a statistically significant change (or one that could have been due to chance). It's good to be encouraging, but does every program need to be portrayed as a success regardless of the results? It may be that the money could be better spent in other ways.

Anonymous said...

All of PPS programs are proclaimed, time after time, to be a success; yet, none of them have improved the educational results for the children that the programs were designed to help! Its just a fact! Until the content and delivery of education in PPS changes from a very low standard, one-size-fits-all model, all the programs in the world will not improve ACADEMIC achievement.

Mark Rauterkus said...

Sports team coaches and band directors are mentors too.

Go figure.