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Download full textJones, Judy A. – 1992
Outcomes of the Performance-Based Diploma (BPD) Program, a program implemented at a high school in the southeast United States, are described in this paper. The basic elements for success are people, program design, and product. Staff function on the belief that teachers exist to meet students' needs. The program includes the following components:…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Competency Based Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
McCullough, K. Owen – 1991
The One-Room-Drop-In-School (ORDIS) emerged as one of Tennessee's dropout prevention program innovations. A pilot ORDIS was started in Nashville (Tennessee), in a high density housing project where concentrations of poverty and illiteracy usually exist. A five-bedroom apartment in the housing project was set up as a school. A certified teacher,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Denham, Alice, Ed. – 1987
This proceedings report presents dropout statistics, descriptions of prevention programs, and recommendations for future efforts. After an introduction to the dropout problem, the proceedings contains transcripts of welcomes and greetings from the mayor of Lubbock and officials from Texas Tech's College of Education, the State Board of Education,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Costs, Dropout Prevention
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
Valisno, Mona Dumlao – 1980
Described here is the Accreditation and Equivalency Programme (AEP), begun in the Philippines in 1976. Early chapters emphasize that the program was instituted to establish citizens' eligibility to receive academic credit for out-of-school learning and experiences, to encourage dropouts to return to school, and to determine eligibility for…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Credits, Dropout Programs, Educational Attainment
Peer reviewedObermiller, Phillip J.; And Others – Urban Education, 1988
Describes the conditions faced by urban Appalachians, with particular reference to educational outcomes, and outlines the philosophy and functions of the Lower Price Hill Community School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Assesses the school's impact on its students, and on local and state levels of educational attainment. (Author/FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Schools, Dropout Programs, Educational Attainment
