Month: April 2022

Learn4Life: One Key to Solving the Dropout Crisis is by Saving the Ninth Graders

Ninth grade is hard. Being 14 or 15 years old and experiencing multiple emotional and hormonal changes is challenging. Now after two years of remote instruction, many students entering high school as freshmen must navigate a new, larger school, while finding the schoolwork more difficult, with core classes and standardized tests. Even previous straight-A students […]

Written by on April 22, 2022

The Learning Report – April 2022

It was a chance meeting that brought Hayley Rico to Learn4Life. She was 17 years old, taking care of herself and her little brother because their parents who suffered from addiction were unable to properly provide for them. She had been kicked out of school for not attending regularly and was turned away from other […]

Written by on April 22, 2022

One Key to Solving the Dropout Crisis is by Saving the Ninth Graders

Ninth grade is hard. Being 14 or 15 years old and experiencing multiple emotional and hormonal changes is challenging. Now after two years of remote instruction many students entering high school as freshmen must navigate a new, larger school, while finding the schoolwork more difficult, with core classes and standardized tests. Even previous straight-A students […]

Written by on April 22, 2022

A Flexible School Schedule was a Lifeline for Hayley

It was a chance meeting that brought Hayley Rico to Learn4Life. She was 17 years old, taking care of herself and her little brother because their parents who suffered from addiction were unable to properly provide for them. She had been kicked out of school for not attending regularly and was turned away from other […]

Written by on April 22, 2022

U.S. Education Secretary is Right – Make Financial Literacy Classes Mandatory

Learn4Life high school students learn how to be fiscally responsible in financial literacy classes United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says personal finance lessons should be mandatory in our schools, and he’s being applauded by schools like Learn4Life, which has been teaching financial literacy to its high school students for the past seven years. […]

Written by on April 20, 2022