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Mohar, Robert C.; Hunt, Edward E. – 1975
The Metropolitan Youth Education Center's program is designed to help high school dropouts and the unemployed or under-employed whose problems are attributable to educational deprivation. The educational program is highly individualized. Each student program is developed to meet the personal goals, time available, ability and achievement level of…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Assessment
Lamping, Robert – 1988
Indiana University of Pennsylvania provided a federally funded program at two area vocational technical schools (AVTSs) to alleviate the student dropout problem in northwest Pennsylvania. Two programs of different emphasis were arranged--a program for out-of-school youth aged 16 to 21 at Indiana County AVTS and a program for in-school growth at…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Download full textNew York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1985
The Adult Education Services for Teenage Parents program, funded by the Job Training Partnership Act and the State Education and Employment Demonstrations (SEED), was a pilot program designed to provide educational training, job readiness training, and support services for students 16 to 19 years old who had left school. Young parents were to be…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Development, Career Education, Counseling Services
Cabrera, M.; And Others – 1979
An alternative high school is proposed to meet the needs of the substantial number of Yuma students who are dropping out of school at increasing rates. In the period from 1974 to 1978 enrollment at Yuma's 2 high schools increased by only 8% while the drop-out rate increased by 56%. Enrollment figures show that the drop-out rate is highest in grade…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Development, Declining Enrollment, Discipline Problems
Escambia County Board of Public Instruction, Pensacola, FL. – 1990
This report summarizes the major programs of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in Escambia County School District, Florida. The report identifies the district's concerns and priorities for the following: state-of-the-art, computer-assisted instruction for basic skills attainment; reconnecting dropouts through aggressive recruitment…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Career Counseling, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hobbs, Daryl J.; Hobbs, Vicki M. – 1979
Administrators, counselors, university faculty, and dropouts met initially to discuss the dropout problem and to design a questionnaire which was administered to 270 dropouts from secondary schools in 5 Missouri Ozark school districts and was designed primarily to determine the perceived need or desire for additional vocational or academic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counseling Services, Counselor Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes
Lamb, Stephen; Rumberger, Russell – 1999
A study examined experiences of early leavers in the United States (US) and Australia in the first two years beyond high school. Data were from these comparable longitudinal surveys: US data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988; Australian data from the 1975 cohort of the Youth in Transition surveys. Findings indicated similar…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blue Collar Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
