DETROIT – Starting this fall, 9th graders at 11 Detroit Public neighborhood High Schools will be the first to participate in a new approach to learning. In what is being called a “redesign”, DPS will allow students to choose a pathway to one of 5 diplomas ranging from honors to skilled trade to a dual degree.
“Oftentimes, one of the biggest deterrents from students wanting to go in college is being out of their comfort zone,” Kerrie Mitchell, President of the DPSCD Alumni Foundation, said. “Our strategic plan goals are reducing chronic absenteeism wanting our students to really come to school so they can learn and get the best education that we can provide”
“Many of the students didn’t have a meaningful connection to high school because we were still delivering it the same way you and I got it 20-plus years ago,” Mitchell said. “Our students are vocal and they want to know how is high school going to prepare them for the future and what it looks like.”…