Why your child’s Year 9 teacher matters for completing Year 12: new research

ThisisEngineering/Pexels As young people progress through high school, they start making plans for what they will do when they leave. What factors influence their plans? And importantly, what helps them stay until the end of school? In our new study, we looked at Year 10 students’ plans and their rates of school completion. Our results suggest certain teaching approaches are linked with more academically focused plans and higher rates of finishing Year 12. Why does finishing school…