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High School Completion: A Comprehensive Review of Projects Directed toward Keeping Students in School
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Gunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Dropout Prevention and Exceptional Student Education Transition Programs: A Study of Promising Practices.
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Gibbs, Elizabeth H.; Perkins, Dollean A.; Repetto, Jeanne B. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1997
Discusses results of a study that identified promising practices in both dropout prevention and transition programs for youth at risk in 67 Florida school districts. Practices related to timing (grade range), curriculum, setting, and partnerships are reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
A Teacher's Manifesto: Designing Learning Which Cures Rather Than Causes Academic Risk: Part 1.
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Kennedy, Mark – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1996
The middle school teacher is the first line of defense against dropout risk for students. This article presents a plan for teachers to design and conduct learning units that cure, rather than cause, further risk. The plan is supported by a model based on recent brain research that meshes student interests with curricular constraints and goals.…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education