Founded in 2002, Project Reflect is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization...(more)
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
- Advocacy for education reform focusing on Tennessee
- Charter school for students in grades K-4
- After-School Program for children K-4
- Summer School for children in K-4
- Pre-kindergarten program
- Scholars program to prepare low-income teens for college
- Non-denominational religious education
- Teacher training in effective methods of teaching at-risk children
- Advocacy for at-risk children with their families and schools
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MISSION
Bringing good news to the poor
FOCUS
Education for children at high risk of school failure (also called ?at-risk? children). Most come from a culture of poverty. Our goal is to move them to a culture of learning.
WHAT IS A CHARTER SCHOOL?
Project Reflect's charter school is Smithson Craighead Academy. Tennessee charter schools are free public schools operated by non-profit organizations with more flexibility and autonomy than traditional public schools.
Research has documented that at-risk children who attend charter schools do better academically than their at-risk peers in the same school district. Competition between charter public schools and traditional public schools raises academic performance of all students. In the end, everyone wins. |
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THE CURRENT CRISIS IN EDUCATION
- Children watch an average of 19 hours 40 minutes of television each week.
- Higher levels of television viewing correlate with lowered academic performance, especially reading scores.
- One-third (33%) of students nationwide do not graduate high school.
- Half of African American students do not graduate high school.
- A student drops out every 26 seconds.
- Of non-graduates, sixty percent (60%) will remain jobless.
- High school graduates live on average almost ten years longer than dropouts. Half of high school graduates are not prepared for college.
- Sixty-five percent (65%) of prison/jail inmates never graduated from high school. Half of high school graduates are not prepared for college.
- A high school graduate earns nearly one-third more (33%) than a high school dropout. A college graduate earns more than twice as much (200%+) as a dropout. Half of high school graduates are not prepared for college.
- Half of high school graduates are not prepared for college.
- The average Black and Hispanic student at the end of high school has academic skills that are at about the eighth-grade level.
- If our workforce had one more year of education, economic growth would increase by five to fifteen percent (5% to 15%).
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