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Peer reviewedMcCaul, Edward – Research in Rural Education, 1989
Summarizes the major issues and perspectives related to dropout prevention. Reviews general strategies and school-based efforts, with emphasis on community involvement and the teacher-student relationship. Discusses related social and cultural issues, and examines the alternative school approach. Contains 23 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Environment
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MA. – 1986
This pamphlet summarizes a conference in Boston on May 6, 1986. Its goal was to assess and plan strategies for the dropout problem in the Boston Public Schools. The Boston Compact, the draft plan contained in this document and prepared before the conference, served as the focus for discussion. Educators and administrators from across the country…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High Risk Students
Dorn, Sherman – 1996
One of the six national goals in the United States is to achieve a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2000. In the last 50 years, high school graduation has become the norm. Concurrent with the new expectation of high school graduation came the dominance of the word "dropout" to describe those without diplomas. Many Americans view…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1988
This resource manual was developed to assist Texas school districts in their efforts to address and respond to the dropout problem. A 1986 study revealed a dropout rate of 33 per cent in Texas. A task force was initiated in 1987 to study the educational and social problem and produce this manual as a step toward overcoming it. The manual has the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Download full textLyke, Robert F. – 1988
Legislation is being considered to authorize grants from the Department of Education for dropout prevention programs, reentry demonstration programs, and high school programs for certain welfare recipients instead of mandatory work or job training. There is also a call for the use of Job Training Partnership Act Summer Youth Program funds to be…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Educational Policy
Collier, Walter V.; And Others – 1987
Through Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE), the Children's Aid Society has been addressing problems of literacy and school dropout in an educational partnership between junior high schools in New York City and a number of major corporations. LIVE brings together junior high school students (grades 7 and 8) who…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
Children's Aid Society, New York, NY. – 1994
Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE) is a mentoring, tutorial, and world of work program that matches a junior high school student with a corporate volunteer. Since 1972, it has matched inner-city New York City seventh and eighth graders who are below grade-level in reading with volunteers who tutor in their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
