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Peer reviewedAddis, Sandy – Journal of School Leadership, 1991
Experiences from dropout programs that serve at-risk students at a North Carolina school district identify planning and management considerations. Among these are that dropout rates and other measures of success must be standardized; and staff selection, duty assignments, and workloads are different for at-risk educators because of inordinate time…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedMarockie, Henry; Jones, H. Lawrence – Education and Urban Society, 1987
To reduce its dropout rate, Ohio County Schools in Wheeling, West Virginia implemented a multifaceted, sequential intervention plan. Its success indicates that direct, personal, immediate, and caring communication with parents and students remains the most effective and least costly way to link home with school. (Author/LHW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Charleston County School District, SC. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1990
"A Vision for the Future" is a comprehensive long-range plan to study, develop, implement, and evaluate an ambitious dropout reduction program in the Charleston (South Carolina) School District. The program entails: (1) improved data reporting on student performance, grade retention, and attrition to identify dropout indicators and risk…
Descriptors: Discipline, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition
Download full textGruskin, Susan J.; Campbell, Mary A.; Paulu, Nancy – 1987
The number of dropouts is increasing and is particularly high in urban areas and among minority students. Dropouts earn less over their lifetimes, are in poorer health, and do not have the technological skills needed for newly-developing jobs. The federal government, the private sector, and educators have made serious commitments to bring down the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Role, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Stone, Calvin R. – 1989
Arguing that educational disadvantage, underachievement, and dropping out are problems that originate with schools as well as students, this document describes the Work and Learning Center in Madison, Wisconsin, that was designed to meet the needs of high school dropouts. The first section gives disadvantaged students' perspectives on the school…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Zykowski, Jane L. – 1994
This report discusses the activities of the California Educational Research Cooperative (CERC) over the past year. The CERC was established in 1998 as a joint venture between the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, the San Bernardino County Offices of Education, and 19 local school districts to bring educational…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, College School Cooperation, Cultural Awareness, Dropout Programs
