Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
| Dropout Programs | 7 |
| Dropouts | 7 |
| Dropout Prevention | 6 |
| Program Evaluation | 3 |
| Dropout Rate | 2 |
| High School Students | 2 |
| High Schools | 2 |
| Potential Dropouts | 2 |
| Program Descriptions | 2 |
| Program Effectiveness | 2 |
| School Districts | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Bowen, Jeffrey M. | 1 |
| Lipkowitz, Debra L. | 1 |
| MOORE, JAMES W. | 1 |
| Marsh, Shannon | 1 |
| Myint-U, Athi | 1 |
| O'Donnell, Lydia | 1 |
| Phillips, Dawna | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 1 |
Education Level
| High Schools | 2 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Policymakers | 1 |
Location
| New York | 7 |
| California | 1 |
| Connecticut | 1 |
| Massachusetts | 1 |
| New York (Albany) | 1 |
| Oregon | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textMyint-U, Athi; O'Donnell, Lydia; Phillips, Dawna – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2012
This technical brief describes updates to a database of dropout prevention programs and policies in 2006/07 created by the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands and described in the Issues & Answers report, "Piloting a searchable database of dropout prevention programs in nine low-income urban school districts in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Databases, Maintenance
Marsh, Shannon – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Concerned about the persistently high dropout rates from big-city secondary schools, education leaders are trying a new approach to increasing the graduation rate--multiple pathways to graduation. Multiple pathways initiatives are relatively new and far from proven. Even the most advanced examples face significant issues, i.e., the need to…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
MOORE, JAMES W. – 1963
INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THE PROBLEM OF EARLY SCHOOL LEARNING WAS PRESENTED. A MAJORITY OF THE 89 SCHOOLS IN THE HOLDING POWER PROJECT OF THE BUREAU OF GUIDANCE IN THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WERE RURAL. HOLDING POWER WAS DEFINED AS THE RATIO OF THE NUMBER OF GRADUATES IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASS TO THE POTENTIAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES IN…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Rural Schools, School Holding Power
Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1970
The purpose of the Benjamin Franklin Urban League Street Academy Program is to help students stay in school, help dropouts to return to school, or help students enter the job market. The program was evaluated in three categories: East Side Cluster Service, summer enrichment, and educational programs. The major evaluation objectives were to…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Urban Ed, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
The Street Academy is a program designed to meet the dropout as an individual--to assist, help and support him continually in his daily life. The academies operate from store-fronts located in neighborhoods where there are large concentrations of school dropouts. They are staffed, at the minimum, by a project director, a street worker, and a…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Change
State Univ. of New York, Albany. – 1986
The New York state educational system must change to reduce the devastatingly high dropout rate among Hispanic, Black and American Indian students. A dropout is defined as a student who has been dropped from a school's enrollment and who has not graduated from 12th grade nor been transferred to another school. Research into the causes of dropping…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Bowen, Jeffrey M.; Lipkowitz, Debra L. – 1985
Students drop out of school for a wide variety of reasons. Programs to discourage dropping out must therefore accommodate the actual needs of individual students rather than aim at the assumed needs of the "typical dropout." This document reviews school policies and programs that could affect dropout tendencies positively. Among these…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
