One Burning Question where I am today in the process of moving toward my doctorate

Since I attended the first colloquia is the topic for my dissertation. The one topic that keeps coming up in education is students dropping out of school. Yet, most of the educators that I have taught with seem to think that it is the student that has the problem and not the education system. In all of the reading that I have done on the subject I have come to believe that it is a combination of both the student and the education system.

I have had superintendents that say that they are willing to go out on the limb to change the way school begins and ends. They will have varied starting and ending times that meet the needs of the students in the district schools. After three years under that superintendent there was not a change in the way school started or ended. Now as a teacher is there something that I can do in my classroom to meet the needs of my students.

Now I am close to the end of a long and enjoyable journey I have a chance to make my stamp in the research that I will be doing. My question is: How and if I find earth shaking answers about dropouts and the dropout rate will there be educators that are willing to chance to stand out on the limb and really use the research to make a difference in the life of a struggling student?