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Download full textEash, Maurice J. – 1970
The results of a comprehensive curriculum evaluation of the Christian Action Ministry (CAM) Academy, which was founded to help black dropouts complete their high school education and secure college placement are reported. The CAM Academy requested the assistance of the University of Illinois in undertaking a comprehensive curriculum evaluation to…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Education, Church Programs, College Students
Oxley, Howard W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This bulletin is one of a series reporting the findings of investigations undertaken during 1936-37 under the Project in Research in Universities of the Office of Education. The project in Research in Universities represents a unique and significant innovation in cooperative research. This series focuses on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Out of School Youth, Investigations, Employment Programs
Frazer, Linda; Ligon, Glynn – 1991
This paper describes a methodology for the evaluation of dropout prevention programs, for calculating dropout rates, and for comparing alternative programs equitably. A first step involves developing a hierarchy of criteria for evaluating programs. These criteria are used to obtain dropout risk probability for individuals and groups and types of…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Blair, George E. – 1970
The Street Academies discussed in this evaluation report are considered to represent outstanding attempts to develop positive culturally different instructional models, rather than the compensatory deficit disadvantaged models that are utilized by regular school programs. Seven chapters discuss the background of the Academies, purposes and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Wilkinson, David; Griffith, Julia – 1994
In 1993-94, the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) allocated money to four operations areas for five dropout prevention programs for overage ninth graders. Three of the five area dropout programs had positive effects on the dropout rates of students served. The dropout rates for these programs were lower than the sixth six-weeks…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
West Virginia Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education, Huntington. – 1984
This guide is intended to provide teachers and administrators, especially in West Virginia, with information about high school dropouts, their characteristics, and ways to retain potential dropouts in high school. A pretest and answer key precede the text of the report. The first section presents an overview of the dropout problem and its…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Tuck, Kathy D.; Shimbuli, Frieda N. – 1988
On the average, 10 percent of District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) students--approximately 8,500 students--are absent from school each day. In order to combat truancy, which often leads to dropping out, DCPS developed the Truancy Prevention Plan, part of a Comprehensive Plan for School Attendance Improvement, which was implemented between…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Communications
Baecher, Richard E.; And Others – 1989
The first 2 years (1986-1988) of the implementation of Fordham University's Stay-In-School Partnership Project (SSPP), a dropout program for urban high-risk children, are described. The long-term goal of the partnership between Fordham's Graduate Schools of Education and Social Science and New York City School District No. 4, a school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention
Franklin, Cynthia; And Others – 1988
This study evaluated the effectiveness of an educational and treatment program for high school dropouts initiated by a private alternative school contracting with a graduate school of social work. The Cassata Program, a joint effort by the Cassata Learning Center and the University of Texas at Arlington, was designed to improve students' academic…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Natriello, Gary, Ed. – 1986
This book collects articles that examine the patterns of dropping out evident among American youth, and the policies developed and implemented to reduce the incidence of dropping out. The following chapters (and their authors) are included: (1) Introduction (G. Natriello); (2) Can We Help Dropouts? Thinking about the Undoable (D. Mann); (3) Large…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY. Queens Coll. – 1984
Operation Success is a pilot project funded by the New York State Education Department to provide support services to high school dropouts and potential dropouts. It offers programs, including employment programs, intended to develop skills, self-awareness and self-direction, enourage career goals, and develop appropriate attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
TANAKA, IRWIN I.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE LEGISLATIVE DRIVE IN HAWAII TO PROVIDE EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED THE IMPETUS FOR THIS STUDY. INCLUDED HERE ARE--(1) A PROBLEM STATEMENT AND DEFINITIONS, (2) THE STUDY'S APPROACH, (3) PROCEDURES AND LIMITATIONS, (4) METHODS AND CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING CULTURAL DEPRIVATION, AND (5) SELECTED REVIEWS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Dropout Programs
Korotkin, Arthur L. – 1974
The meaning of program evaluation in the context of educational innovation has been expanded to embrace all aspects of a program, both formative and summative. This review seeks to identify meaningful literature on programs related to dropout prevention and the preparation of the disadvantaged for the world of work through vocational training,…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The High School Redirection Program was designed to maintain 240 potential dropouts in an educational-vocational setting while assisting them to progress toward a high school diploma. Students were admitted from 13 high schools in Brooklyn and from Andrew Jackson in Queens. They were to follow a work-study program through the summer and regular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Erickson, Edsel; And Others – 1971
The main stated purpose of this project is to send 100 Family Assistants who are familiar with the community into the homes of senior high school students who show serious problems in school attendance, adjustment, and/or achievement. The project is designed to provide a link between home and school for 15,000 such potential dropouts by having the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitude Change, Dropout Characteristics
