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Eckenrod, James; Wheeler, Carl – American School Board Journal, 1987
To give at-risk teenagers the best chance for high school graduation and further schooling or employment, Baltimore schools created Student Adventures in Learning (SAIL), a remedial computer-assisted instruction program. Over 100 eighth graders identified as potential dropouts instead improved academically and made secure transitions to high…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, High Risk Students
Yadkin Valley Economic Development District, Inc., Walnut Cove, NC. – 1976
This report describes an experimental project to provide alternative employment and vocational training programs to talented disadvantaged young persons. The target audience for the project was disadvantaged youths with exceptional learning abilities, i.e., youths who were unemployed or underemployed and who needed basic and remedial education to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Guidance
Download full textJablonsky, Adelaide, Ed. – 1970
The second of a series of five reports of selected literature included in the ERIC system (three of which have been completed), this bibliography carries extensive annotations, and a brief review of program descriptions and evaluations relating to the school dropout. The bibliographical listing is in four sections: state and city reports, programs…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Counseling Services, Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth
SUMMERS, LINDEN D., JR.; LETTIS, DONALD R. – 1966
A SUMMER PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY (1) TO MOTIVATE ADOLESCENT MALE DROPOUTS TOWARD EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND (2) TO ENCOURAGE IN THEM MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD ART AND SOCIETY. THE PROGRAM CENTERED AROUND AN ART CLASS SINCE ART WAS AN AREA ABOUT WHICH STUDENTS HAD EXPERIENCED THE LEAST FRUSTRATION AND FAILURE. STUDENTS…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Art Activities, Art Education, Attitude Change
Mink, Oscar G., Ed.; Kaplan, Bernard A., Ed. – 1970
This book is the result of a series of workshops designed for school personnel desiring to improve educational programs for disadvantaged youth and potential dropouts. The workshops were conducted at Cornell University during the summer of 1964 through 1967. The chapters in this book on milieu, basic issues, dropout problems, counseling the…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Objectives, Counseling Services, Counseling Theories
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
Upward Bound was a precollege program geared for high school students with potential who had been handicapped by economic, cultural, and educational deprivation. It involved a full-time summer program and follow-up programs (counseling, cultural activities, and physical education) during the academic year. Students stayed in the program for three…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Cultural Activities, Disadvantaged Youth
Borman, Kathryn M. – 1992
The issues facing urban Appalachian children and their families in Cincinnati (Ohio) are addressed. Appalachians have the highest school dropout rate in Cincinnati proportionate to their numbers, with low access to jobs and generally poor access to, and use of, public services. Much of the information for this report comes from a survey of 246…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
