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National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, Washington, DC. – 1987
The school dropout rate is a problem which educators cannot solve alone. It will take a total societal effort to design solutions. This document presents the ideas and strategies discussed at a conference on dropout prevention attended by leaders of national education organizations. Theoretical as well as practical suggestions are given to begin…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Programs, Dropout Prevention
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This evaluation of the second-year (1986-87) implementation of the New York City (New York) Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI) in 13 high schools focuses on student characteristics and outcomes, with a discussion of a set of statistical data on program services, findings on school-level indicators of program effectiveness, and an analysis of…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention
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
