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Download full textEducation Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Campus Compact. – 1989
Campus Partners in Learning (CPIL) encourages college and university students to act as mentors to middle school youth who are at risk of not completing a secondary education or making the transition to a productive adulthood. This national project, comprised of 202 colleges, offers information, technical assistance, and national visibility for…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1993
With the passage of the Early Child Development and Academic Act of 1993, 21 former Target 2000 Dropout Prevention and Retrieval pilot projects were reorganized as technical assistance sites. This publication is a compilation of descriptions of the programs at the technical assistance sites, areas in which technical assistance is available, and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWeir, Robert M., Jr. – Clearing House, 1996
Outlines characteristics of effective alternative programs for at-risk middle schools students, noting organizational, instructional, and interpersonal components. Describes a successful drop-out prevention program which operates as a school-within-a-school for sixth- through eighth-grade students, emphasizing multicultural education and…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Educational Research, High Risk Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
Joseph, Joyce A. – 1992
A practicum addressed the problem of low self-esteem of at-risk students by developing and implementing a 12-week dropout prevention program for 19 eighth-grade students in urban, middle class school. The program used five basic strategies for raising self-esteem: affective skills training (using role playing, mapping, and brainstorming to help…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Grade 8, High Risk Students
Clark, Terry A. – 1987
This paper discusses the potential of school district-based and community-wide approaches to dropout prevention, and provides a summary of the goals and expected outcomes of the Consortium on Dropout Prevention, and the Urban Dropout Prevention Collaboratives Program. The Consortium on Dropout Prevention was formed to cooperatively gather and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
