Ware County Superintendent Featured in US Department of Education Webinar on Drop-Out Prevention

WAYCROSS, GA - Joseph Barrows, Jr., the superintendent of Ware County School System, was featured in a recent webinar published by the U. S. Department of Education entitled "Utilizing the Village: Using Early Warning Indicators and Interventions to Help Rural Students Succeed."

The objective of the webinar was develop ideas and strategies to imporve high school graduation rates and to learn how to work with students to solve their problems before drop-outs occur.

In the webinar, Barrows, Jr. talks about the "Report Card Conference" program in place in his school system and how that has helped to improve drop-out rates.

To view the webinar, visit http://ruraldropoutprevention.weebly.com/index.html.