Article: Future of Poughkeepsie's E-TECH program questioned (July 12, 2018)
Very interesting article. Recent too. It goes through a pretty detailed account of what's going on at the school.
This school is an E-TECH (Engineering, Technology, Early College High School) school, but is like P-Tech in that it's a six year program where you earn an associate's degree. Obviously they are not completely alike but the concept is the same.
Interesting because it touches on student's struggling to earn good grades in their college level courses
"Meanwhile, more than half of the students in cohort one were unsuccessful in completing a college course, either withdrawing from it or earning a low grade."
but also some students who have excelled "And Manrique has excelled in the E-TECH program. ".
I feel like it is a good read of the struggles and positives of an early college school.
The school is shutting down this year's cohort to focus on the ones it already has.
Very interesting article. Recent too. It goes through a pretty detailed account of what's going on at the school.
This school is an E-TECH (Engineering, Technology, Early College High School) school, but is like P-Tech in that it's a six year program where you earn an associate's degree. Obviously they are not completely alike but the concept is the same.
Interesting because it touches on student's struggling to earn good grades in their college level courses
"Meanwhile, more than half of the students in cohort one were unsuccessful in completing a college course, either withdrawing from it or earning a low grade."
but also some students who have excelled "And Manrique has excelled in the E-TECH program. ".
I feel like it is a good read of the struggles and positives of an early college school.
The school is shutting down this year's cohort to focus on the ones it already has.