This article discusses an educational practice that has been introduced in Rwanda, which aims to bring back into the formal education system children who are out-of-school or unschooled, even though they are over the legal enrolment age. The authors analyse this intensive programme, designed for children at that age and adapted to their daily…

Describes a special laboratory program at Eastern Kentucky University for flunkouts." (HS)

Career College (originally known as Cooperative Education Program for Dropouts) was set up under Title I of the Higher Education Act. The objectives of this program focused on familiarizing the individual with the college environment, fostering independence in program participants, and creating a desire in participants to continue their education…

Describes Jobs through Education and Training (JET), a program for dropouts that offers vocational training, remedial academics, and individual and group therapy. JET serves young people whose problems make them unable to function effectively in a public school environment. (JOW)

This job corps center program is designed for male school drop outs from low socioeconomic backgrounds and ages 16 through 21 years, whose entrance test scores reveal marked deficiencies in reading. Three thousand of the dropouts were enrolled in a foundation reading program designed to advance skills sufficiently for the students to take advanced…

THE TRAINING PROGRAM IS ADMINISTERED BY THE ST. LOUIS PRESBYTERY AS A THREE YEAR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AND IS FINANCED BY A $56,000 GRANT FROM THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN. IN THE FIRST EIGHTEEN MONTHS FIVE CENTERS FOR TUTORING, LOCATED IN VARIOUS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, WERE ORGANIZED ON A NONSECTARIAN BASIS AND WERE OPENED TO CHILDREN ATTENDING…

Reported is the 1963 special summer dropout prevention program financed by the President's emergency fund and by various other national, state, and local agencies and organizations. The document summarizes the dropout campaign and describes briefly the types of programs and methods used to identify and contact dropouts and potential dropouts. Also…

This paper reports the results of the experimental use of new remedial education techniques in three urban out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. The use of these techniques and the evaluation of the results of these techniques constituted the Accelerated Learning Experiment. The research design called for study groups of 50 each in…

A project identified as potential dropouts 53 Springfield (Ohio) South High School freshmen and 24 London (Ohio) High School juniors and seniors who demonstrated irregular attendance patterns and poor grade achievement. The 53 freshmen and 15 London High School students were enrolled in a career club, an intervention program to address their…

This study concerns school dropouts in the Boston Public School system. It is divided into three sections which deal with: (1) a review of research studies on the causes of school dropout; (2) statistical analysis of the Boston situation by race and ethnic origin, gender, grade, and location; and (3) a review of prevention/intervention programs,…

Describes the Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) program, a coordinated national effort to help migrant students complete their education. Provides information on the following: (1) when PASS can be taken; (2) how it operates; (3) what PASS courses are available; (4) what comprises a PASS packet; (5) how credits are awarded; and (6) program…

This document summarizes the findings of a study of the reasons why some at-risk youth persist in special programs while others drop out. Information was gathered from 16 focus group sessions comprised of both "persisters" and "leavers" from in-school remedial programs and out-of-school youth service corps. The findings,…

The Auxiliary Services for High Schools Program (ASHS) in New York City is a service oriented alternative school concept and optional learning environment established to serve educationally disadvantaged students who have found it difficult to function in the traditional high school setting, and as a result, have become school dropouts. This…

The costly supplemental or alternative programs that combat chronic school failure and continued high dropout rates are not always effective for the following reasons: (1) students do not always find out which programs are available, and (2) if no suitable program is available, there is usually no one responsible for trying to create one. People…

Indiana University of Pennsylvania provided a federally funded program at two area vocational technical schools (AVTSs) to alleviate the student dropout problem in northwest Pennsylvania. Two programs of different emphasis were arranged--a program for out-of-school youth aged 16 to 21 at Indiana County AVTS and a program for in-school growth at…