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Young, Patricia B. – 1980
The Academics Plus Program, which stresses basic skills, discipline and dress codes, homework assignments, promotion requirements, and special parent conferences, served more than 10,000 students in 29 elementary and middle/junior high schools in 1979-1980. There is a single-school model (Fitler) and a multi-school model (28 other schools). A…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Discipline Policy, Dress Codes
Wheelock, Anne – 1986
Practices of attendance, suspension, and non-promotion in middle schools in Boston (Massachusetts) encourage at-risk students to drop out. School policies and practices, student data, and interviews with at-risk students were reviewed to determine which practices encourage disengagement from school. Personal narratives are included. Major findings…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Demonstration Programs
