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Peer reviewedGroth, Cori – Urban Education, 1998
An alternative dropout-prevention program is examined from the students' perspectives. Findings from interviews and observations suggest that the program is effective in keeping the students in school but does little to help the students develop daily living and social skills. Policy implications are discussed and suggestions for future research…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Handelman, Don; Basker, Eileen – 1981
The word "miftan" means "threshold" in Hebrew. The Miftan as an educational framework was conceived in Israel as a response to the needs of marginal male youth who are about to drop out or who have dropped out of the regular school system. Currently 42 Miftanim are operating in that country. This report presents ethnographic…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1989
This document, the first part of a two-part evaluation of the third-year implementation of New York City's 3-year Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI), is the final evaluation report of implementation of the DPI middle school component, called the Dropout Prevention Program (DPP), conducted in 29 schools. Case-management services and some…
Descriptors: Attendance, Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Merchant, Betty – 1987
Understanding why students drop out is important in developing effective dropout prevention strategies. Traditional research has focused on high school dropouts; recent interest uses a developmental approach and examines possibilities for earlier intervention. Each section of this report analyzes dropout prevention at the preschool, elementary,…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Download full textHahn, Andrew; And Others – 1987
Dropouts are defined throughout this document (including in its graphic displays) as: early school leavers, expelled, intermittent learners, leftouts, pushouts, stopouts, suspended, and truants. Sufficient research has been done about school dropouts to begin a comprehensive solution. Schools and other institutions must mobilize the knowledge to…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
Phelan, William T. – 1987
This report assesses the first year of a school achievement program in Lowell, Massachusetts (Lowell Achievement Program, LAP). The program targeted seventh and eighth grade students who were at risk for dropping out of school. The main goals of the program were to identify these students and to stimulate them to participate in their own learning…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
Supik, Josie Danini; Johnson, Roy L. – 1999
This policy brief presents an in-depth look at the dropout issue in Texas in the context of 1986 state legislation that mandated that the schools and state education agency ensure that at least 95 % of Texas youth complete high school. Findings from a study by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), using a high school attrition…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Policy
Baker, Anita M.; Weinbaum, Alexandra T. – 1992
A study was done to describe the development of seven alternative schools for youth who dropped out of high school or who were at risk of doing so on the model of a Brooklyn (New York) alternative school, High School Redirection. The replication demonstration took place in the 1988-89 and 1989-90 school years in Cincinnati (Ohio), Denver…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1989
This document comprises part 1 of a two-part evaluation of the third-year implementation of the New York City Board of Education's 3-year high school Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI). It describes the DPI and presents the evaluation findings and recommendations. (Part 2 comprises reports on 8 special substudies of the program in year 3.) The…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, NY. – 1990
The Living for the Young Family through Education (LYFE) program is a school-based daycare and support program for adolescent parents and their children in the New York City Public Schools. Infants receive daycare services in the LYFE nursery, usually located in the high school. Parents receive social services provided by a social worker and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Early Parenthood
Quinones, Nathan – 1986
This report provides an overview of the operation of two innovative New York City dropout prevention programs, the Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention Program (AIDP) and the Dropout Prevention Program (DPP). First, basic program components, required and site-specific, are described briefly. Each program site must provide these…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
New York City's middle school Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention (AIDP) program for the 1985-86 school year is evaluated at 10 schools whose programs most closely adhered to the guidelines developed by the Chancellor. The report includes an introduction with background information on the program and evaluation; a literature review…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Programs, Group Unity
Gueron, Judith M. – 1984
The Department of Labor's Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) was the nation's largest demonstration to test a new approach to solving the employment problems of disadvantaged youths. Sixteen- to 19-year-olds from low income or welfare households who had not yet graduated from high school were offered minimum-wage jobs, part-time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Denver Public Schools, CO. – 1986
In February 1986, a Dropout Prevention Office was created by the superintendent of the Denver (Colorado) Public Schools to develop a comprehensive approach to address the dropout issue. The Office was also to evaluate existing dropout efforts, and serve as a clearinghouse on dropout programs and information and as an encouragement to partnerships…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives
Mokler, Mary M.; Hernandez, Francisca – 1987
This is an external evaluation of the "Career Education and High School Completion Project for Girls and Young Women" at the Crownpoint (New Mexico) Institute of Technology (CIT). The project, funded by the federal Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP), targeted primarily Navajo females age 18 and under in grades 7 through 12…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
