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Dropout Prevention for Youth with Disabilities: Efficacy of a Sustained School Engagement Procedure.
Peer reviewedSinclair, Mary F.; Christenson, Sandra L.; Evelo, David L.; Hurley, Christine M. – Exceptional Children, 1998
Ninety-four 7th- and 8th-grade students with learning and emotional/behavioral disabilities received intervention services that incorporated monitoring and school engagement strategies. Half continued to receive services through grade 9. On two of three measures, students receiving continued intervention services were significantly more likely to…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Dropout Prevention, Emotional Disturbances, Grade 7
Download full textLong, David; And Others – 1996
This report presents the fourth-year findings on the effectiveness of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) Program, a statewide welfare initiative that uses financial incentives and penalties to promote school attendance by pregnant and parenting teenagers on welfare. The report looks at LEAP's effects on school completion, employment,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Early Parenthood
Myers, David; Olsen, Rob; Seftor, Neil; Young, Julie; Tuttle, Christina – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
Policymakers have long been concerned about the disparities in college attendance between more and less advantaged groups of students. Upward Bound is one of the largest and longest running federal programs designed to help economically disadvantaged students prepare for, enter and succeed in college. Since December 1991, Mathematica Policy…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Outcomes of Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedPeak, Janie; Dewalt, Mark W. – ERS Spectrum, 1994
Evaluates a computerized reading management and enrichment program's effects on college-bound ninth graders attending Cherryville Junior-Senior High School, in Gaston County, North Carolina. When total reading scores were compared on third-, sixth-, and eighth-grade California Achievement Tests, the Cherryville students (five-year program…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Enrichment Activities, Grade 9
