Talks about our music opportunity program

1. Jeffery Rhodes
www.beats4books.org

2. Lowering the dropout rate
Using music as a bargaining tool
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• Music opportunities for • Free recording studio
grades and attendance time for better grades
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• Students can • How bad is it
Sing, Rap, or play a
instrument
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• Offering recording contracts • Take they're opportunity
to outstanding students to the public market

3. Lowering the dropout rate
About 7000 students dropout each school day all year long
Trading music opportunity for hard
work.
• Better Grades
• Great Attendance
• Make your own music CD
• Learn how to make beats and sell them on
the internet.
Music is
• Trade good grades for studio time influential
and
• Now it’s time to do shows persuasive
We have got
to do
something
about the
dropout
rate.

4. Graduating Vs Not
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DROPPED OUT GRADUATED
On food stamps, little Job
no income – likely sell opportunities, secondary
drugs, fix cars and not education choices, longer
pay child support. lasting relationships, tax
• Arrested before payer
• Drugs or other • Try other things
abuse • Hobbies family fun
• Not so
Graduating
discouraged
puts
revenue
into the Drop out
economy takes from
the
economy

5. Music Opportunity
Its who’s responsibility to find a way to connect
Beats4books give music
opportunity and is not a
promise to become a star. It
is the hope to help someone
become a Artist however our
goal is to lower the dropout
With these opportunities
rate and with your help it each student must try
will work
harder and show
improvement every
quarter.

6. Some of the benefits
Great benefits
For rap groups
• Promotion, CD Art
work, Instrumental
Tracks, Shows, Photoshop
tutorials
• CD Duplication, Mix and
Mastering, copywriting
For singing artists
• Web Site Promotion
• Stage Performance
• CD Promotion
• J Card Promotion

7. This is a chance to experience
Perform at local Make a CD and Learn to play a
concerts to open sell to the public new instrument.
for major acts on iTunes and CD
and plays. baby.

8. SO WHOS THE HIGHEST
Florida Comes in last place at 55%
New
These represent the highest
Jersey
number of graduates for 2000
87%
#1
Hispanic African
Louisiana Americans
73% West Virginia
74%%
Native American Asian
Alabama Illinois
86% 95%
Caucasian
North
Dakota
89%

9. SO WHOS THE LOWEST
Florida Comes in last place at 55%
This chart shows what states FLORIDA
are the lowest starting with 55%
Florida being the lowest overall
#1
plus Florida comes in first
place in Caucasian that Hispanic African
dropout. Americans
Mississippi
WISCONSIN
Sometimes the dropouts are 23% 41%
not counted like in Washington
only the people that wrote in
were counted even though the
state admit that they were
more dropouts. Asian
Native American
Nebraska
Rhode
Island
40%
66%
Caucasian
Florida
60%

10. National Graduation Rates:
Class of 2000 90%
80%
The chart to the right shows 70%
the disparity between 60%
graduation rates among
different ethnic groups. While
50%
Caucasians and Asians have
40%
higher than average graduation 30%
rates, minority students such 20%
as African- 10%
American, Hispanic, and 0%
Native-American Students are
consistently left behind.
What can we do to help raise
graduation rates to 79% or
higher for EVERYBODY ?

11. In major US cities, only half
of students graduate…
A report released in 2008 shows that while
average graduation rate is nearly 70%, only 52%
of students in major cities will graduate.
Urban Schools
Of 50 major cities
included in the
report, the average
DROPOUTS
42% graduation rate was
58%. Seventeen of the
cities had graduation
rates of 50% or
lower, with Detroit
coming in the lowest at
24.9%.
Grey, Barry:
04.03.2008, wsws.org

12. Urban vs. Suburban
Graduation Discrepancies Urban
Subarbs
There is a huge difference
between graduation rates
in major urban school 100
districts and those in the
adjoining suburbs in 80
2oo8.
In Baltimore for 60
example, only 34.6% of
public high school 40
students graduate, while
in the adjoining
20
suburbs, 81.5% of kids get
there diploma in 4 years.
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That’s a difference of 46.9
percentage points!!!!

13. Help us get started
Here’s how you can help
All we need is a good start. We
want to help the community by
1 Download our instrumentals
offering these opportunities to
students who do better in
school and continues to do
2 Cash donation tax deductable
well.
3 Donate metal like cars and
washers and dryers
4 Sponsor 1 student for
$2000 tax deductable
5 Donate a instrument

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