History of American Higher Education
Jeff Nelson
Kewauna
100
In most of the 20th century, the country that stood alone in the quality of higher education and the percent of graduates.
What is the US?
100
The name of the program used in Chicago high schools and curriculum design by Jeff Nelson and his team.
What is One Goal?
100
The risk factors Kewauna, a student in the One Goal program, had.
What are family financial peril, delinquent middle school experience, adverse life experiences?
200
The percent of American males that were born in 1900 that graduated college.
What is 5%?
200
The name of the program that Jeff Nelson worked for before setting out to create a full time academic course.
What is Teach For America?
200
Kewauna's ACT score which put her in the 15th percentile nationwide.
What was 15.
300
In the past decade, a country that moved ahead of the US in graduation rates.
What is the UK or Australia or Poland or Norway or South Korea?
300
The three main goals of Jeff Nelson's curriculum.
What are Intensive ACT Prep, Road Map to College, Non-cognitive Academic Skills?
300
The name of the remedial program Kewauna participated in at her middle school in Minnesota.
What is WINGS?
400
The change in the graduation rate amongst American men between 1925 and 1945.
What is it doubled?
400
The non-cognitive academic skills in the program.
What are study skills, work habits, time management, help seeking behavior, and social academic problem solving?
400
The years in high school that Kewauna applied herself and focused in her GPA.
What are her junior and senior year?
500
It is a better predictor of college completion than the ACT score.
What is high school GPA?
500
The five skills that Jeff Nelson called Leadership Principles.
What are resourcefulness, resilience, ambition, professionalism, and integrity.
500
The college that Kewauna was accepted to.
What is Western Illinois?
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