National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Project

Mississippi ChalleNGe Academy

Mississippi

The mission of the Mississippi ChalleNGe Academy is to improve the life-coping skills and employment potential of high school dropouts so that they may become productive members of their communities and society in general.

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Program Staff

 

Program Staff

 

Administration Building 80

Core Components

 

Core Components

 

There are eight core components of the Mississippi ChalleNGe Academy curriculum. Cadets must successfully complete all eight components to graduate from the Academy. The core components are designed to educate and produce youth that will become productive members of the community upon graduation.

The eight core components are:

Curriculum

 

Academic Curriculum

 

The Mississippi ChalleNGe Academy provides individualized instruction based on each cadet's personal needs in order to prepare the cadet to take and pass the GED test. Classes are concentrated in the five areas tested on the General Education Development (GED) certificate test; Math, Science, Social Studies, Literature and The Arts, and Writing Skills/ Essay.

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One of the major social challenges facing the nation today is the plight of teenagers who cease to attend high school before graduation.  In 1990, approximately 1,512 students were dropping out of school each day.  In 1993, there were approximately 3.4 million people in the United States, ages 16-24, who were high school dropouts.  Under-skilled and undereducated, they are adrift in a high-tech society that requires ever-increasing literacy, more education, and technical skills for even minimum wage jobs.  Many become dependent upon social services, some become in

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