Classnotes Podcast (June 26, 2013) Six students received prizes in a national competition among participants in the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program, a nationally-recognized cross-age tutoring program of IDRA. In this annual contest, tutors write about how the program helped them do better in school and how they had helped their tutees to do better.IDRA’s dropout prevention program, the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program, has a 98 percent success rate among students who were considered at risk of dropping out. Linda Cantú, Ph.D., director of the program, reads examples from some of the winning essays and shares her passion for the program. Linda is interviewed by Bradley Scott, Ph.D., director of the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, provides and introduction.Show length: Send comments to [email protected]Sign up for Classnotes e-mail alerts.ResourcesSix Teens Win 2103 National Essay Contest Awardhttp://createsend.com/t/r-2D8D8A0E5C2EE3A22540EF23F30FEDEDThe full text of all of the winning essayshttp://www.idra.org/resource-center/six-teens-win-2013-national-essay-contest-award/Coca-Cola Valued Youth Programhttp://www.idra.org/coca-cola-valued-youth-program/Your feedbackWe welcome your comments and questions to the podcast. Send an e-mail to [email protected].Listen to every episode!To ensure you don’t miss a single episode of IDRA Classnotes, subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, (download iTunes free if you don’t have it) or sign up to receive an e-mail alert as soon as a new show is published.The post The Power of Student Voices in Dropout Prevention – Podcast Episode 125 appeared first on IDRA.