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Strother, Deborah Burnett – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Reports on the results of several major studies of high school dropouts. Topics addressed are who drops out and why; school-related causes; and prevention policies and programs. Stresses the urgency of addressing the nationwide dropout problem and recommends courses of action. Appended are 19 references. (IW)
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Peer reviewedRohr, Michael E.; James, Richard – School Counselor, 1994
Examines how school counselors can assist runaways. The authors focus on prevention, runaway programs, and how to expedite school reentry. Because school counselors invariably spend time with runaways, counselors can become more effective and efficient both in the short and long term in helping these troubled clients. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Delinquency, Dropouts
Download full textGhory, Ward J.; Sinclair, Robert L. – 1987
To be a marginal student is to experience a strained, difficult relationship with the school environment. It is crucial to understand marginality and to analyze its extent in today's schools. The more intractable problems of school learning are most effectively addressed at an early stage when the relationship between individual and school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Drug Abuse, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students
Metzer, David – 1997
This paper reports on a study of high school dropouts ages 16-24 in a rural county in Illinois. Specifically, the study reports on descriptive data pertaining to high school dropouts, focusing on those who chose to return to education; changes in student views and perceptions regarding education; and efforts by the school system to encourage…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Sinclair, Robert L.; Ghory, Ward J. – 1987
This book examines the conditions for learning from the perspective of those students for whom schools are not productive and satisfying settings. Both current and desired characteristics of school environments are examined from the standpoint of their effect on marginal students. Questions probed include how difficulties begin and why individuals…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropouts, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedEpstein, Kitty Kelly – Journal of Education, 1992
Shares the reflections on school atmosphere of two high school dropouts who returned to a public alternative school and went on to college. Common themes include student dissatisfaction with traditional high school and middle school, and their positive responses to the support and engagement found in the alternative school. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, College Bound Students, Dropouts
Gennetian, Lisa A.; Duncan, Greg J.; Knox, Virginia W.; Vargas, Wanda G.; Clark-Kauffman, Elizabeth; London, Andrew S. – 2002
A study of research was conducted to determine how welfare and work policies enacted in 1996 targeted at low-income parents have influenced their adolescent children. Using meta-analytic techniques, the research synthesis integrates survey data collected from parents in eight studies of 16 different welfare and employment programs, focusing on…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis
