====== Welcome to the Learning to Finish Wiki ====== ----
The Learning to Finish Wiki is a website that fosters collaboration between parents, educators, community members, researchers, and students toward lowering the dropout rate. \\ \\ Wiki users can create new articles and edit existing ones in order to seek collaboration on meeting challenges with innovative solutions.\\ \\ /* ------------------- Counter Related Calculations -------------------------------------- */ $year = date('Y'); //echo $year.'
'; $jan1str = 'Jan 1, '.$year; $jan1 = strtotime($jan1str); //echo $jan1.'
'; $start = date('M N, Y', $jan1); //echo $start.'
'; $now = time(); //echo $now.'
'; $diff = $now - $jan1; //echo $diff.'
'; $dropouts = floor($diff / 9); //echo $dropouts.'
'; $place7 = floor($dropouts/1000000); $place6 = floor($dropouts/100000 - $place7*10); $place5 = floor($dropouts/10000 - $place7*100 - $place6*10); $place4 = floor($dropouts/1000 - $place7*1000 - $place6*100 - $place5*10); $place3 = floor($dropouts/100 - $place7*10000 - $place6*1000 - $place5*100 - $place4*10); $place2 = floor($dropouts/10 - $place7*100000 - $place6*10000 - $place5*1000 - $place4*100 - $place3*10); $place1 = floor($dropouts/1 - $place7*1000000 - $place6*100000 - $place5*10000 - $place4*1000 - $place3*100 - $place2*10); //echo $place7.' '.$place6.' '.$place5.' '.$place4.' '.$place3.' '.$place2.' '.$place1; $ones = $place1*180; $tens = $place2*21+1; $hundreds = $place3*21+1; $thousands = $place4*21+1; $tenthousands = $place5*21+1; $hundredthousands = $place6*21+1; $millions = $place7*21+1; /* ------------------- Counter Related Calculations -------------------------------------- */ echo ''; \\ Each year over 3.5 million American students drop out of school. It's an ongoing crisis that translates into approximately one lost student every 9 seconds. This counter estimates the number of dropouts so far this year.
\\ \\ === Wiki Sections === ---- The Learning to Finish Wiki is organized into four sections. Users may access these sections by the navigation links at the top of every page or by clicking the links below:\\ \\ **[[Programs and Initiatives]]**\\ Case studies and success stories which explore programs that attempt to address the many facets of student retention. Use these studies to spot some common problems with this tough subject or to help find a solution to the challenges you may face or to share stories of what works and what doesn't.\\ \\ **[[Research]]**\\ Looking for the best of what's out there on a given topic? Check out these "Learning to Finish" literature overviews or add one of your own. If you're a scholar, teacher or parent we want to hear what you think are the best resources for keeping students in school.\\ \\ **[[News and Resources]]**\\ Useful links to dropout prevention websites. If you have favorite web resources, add them here to share them with the community. Affiliated with a group working to reduce the dropout rate? Leave your information here so others can find it. \\ \\ **[[Act Now!]]**\\ Community members seeking to have an immediate impact can use this section for ideas on how to get started immediately. \\ \\ === Getting Started === ---- * **[[http://www.learningtofinish.org/doku.php?id=home&do=register|New users click here to register]]**\\ * **[[http://www.learningtofinish.org/doku.php?do=login&id=home|Already registered? Click here to login]]**\\ * **[[tutorial|Click here to learn how to post an article]]**\\ * **[[http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english|Learn about wikis by watching a 4 minute video]]** * **[[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3Amanual|Learn advanced topics from the wiki "How to" manual]]**\\ \\