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The Remedial Programme for Out-of-School and Drop-Out Children in Rwanda
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Kanamugire, Camille; Rutakamize, Joseph – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
This article discusses an educational practice that has been introduced in Rwanda, which aims to bring back into the formal education system children who are out-of-school or unschooled, even though they are over the legal enrolment age. The authors analyse this intensive programme, designed for children at that age and adapted to their daily…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation
T.A.P.S. To Allow Pupils to Succeed. A Model Program for At-Risk Students Linking Vocational Education and Alternatives to Social Promotion. Final Evaluation Report.
English, Kenneth; Edwards, Mary – 1989
During the 1988-89 school year, the Kaufman Independent School District (Texas) developed a model program for students at risk of dropping out of school. The program linked a current basic skills instructional program, a vocational education program, and an at-risk program. The goal of TAPS (To Allow Pupils to Succeed) was to produce high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Summer Youth Job Program: Congressional Action Has Increased Emphasis on Remedial Education. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate.
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1988
Local summer programs funded under the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program have added assessment of educational deficiencies and remedial education to their work experience programs, but the number of disadvantaged youth served and the intensity of the programs varied greatly. Evaluation data were gathered by telephone interviews with…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged