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Peer reviewedWood, Mary M. – Preventing School Failure, 2001
Guidelines for preventing school failure include: (1) recognize early signs of potential failure; (2) build student motivation; (3) utilize students' developmental paths; (4) design focused and interesting curriculum activities; and (5) select motivating management and teaching strategies. (Contains references.) (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedMayer, G. Roy – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1995
Multiple correlates and determinants of antisocial behavior within the home, community, and school are reviewed. A variety of contextual factors and setting events within the schools are found to be major contributors to antisocial behavior, and some of these factors are identified within the home. Increased attention to these setting events is…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Dropout Prevention, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedKortering, Larry; Braziel, Patricia M.; Tompkins, James R. – Behavioral Disorders, 2002
Interviews with 33 high school students with behavioral disorders identified factors affecting high school completion. Students' responses to each of five questions are categorized. Results suggest changes related to teachers, curriculum, and administration that might help more youth with behavior disorders to complete high school. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Dropout Prevention, High Schools, Student Attitudes
Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2005
Hanging onto kids who might otherwise leave school is the mission of the Options Complex at Margaret A. Ireland School in Cleveland. Options Complex is a program for students in grades 6-12 who are behind in school by two or more years. Much of the concern about dropout rates has focused on improving high schools. Experts say that struggling…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Middle Schools, Dropout Prevention, Age Grade Placement
Download full textStedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, 2010
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) was assigned the task of compiling, analyzing and summarizing the data for Indicator 2--Dropout--from the FFY 2008 Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and the revised State Performance Plans (SPPs), which were submitted to the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Disabilities, Dropouts, Special Education
Heppen, Jessica B.; Therriault, Susan Bowles – National High School Center, 2008
The high school dropout problem has been called a national crisis. Educators, researchers, and policymakers continue to work to identify effective dropout prevention approaches. One important element of such prevention efforts is the identification of students at highest risk for dropping out and then the targeting of resources to keep them in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Setting the Stage for New High Schools": Alliance, National League of Cities Cohost Capitol Hill Briefing…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Finance, Public Education, Newsletters
Duckenfield, Marty, Ed. – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N), 2008
The "National Dropout Prevention Newsletter" is published quarterly by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Education in the Urban Context (Ed Lambert); (2) An Interview with Paul Reville, Massachusetts Secretary of Education; (3) Communities In Schools of Chicago (Jane…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Book Reviews, Dropout Prevention, Newsletters
Berkins, Cynthia Lawry; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2007
Over the last decade, between 347,000 and 544,000 10th- through 12th-grade students left school each year without successfully completing a high school program Status dropout rates represent the proportion of young people ages 16 through 24 who are out of school and who have not earned a high school credential. Status rates are higher than event…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Research, Dropout Programs
Wells, Shirley; And Others – 1989
Early, accurate identification of potentially at-risk students is crucial to developing effective dropout prevention programs. Checklists are commonly used by schools and agencies to identify potential dropouts. Unfortunately checklists have several weaknesses, e.g., it is difficult to know how many characteristics must be checked before deciding…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students, High Schools, Identification
Seoane, Myriam; Smink, Jay – 1991
Incentives are commonly used by individuals and organizations to initiate change. Incentives are now being employed in education to keep students in school. In an attempt to determine the effectiveness of programs that utilize incentives, an analysis was conducted of the programs in the National Dropout Prevention Center's Focus Database that…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Incentives
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1989
This document contains a variety of materials from the Teen Outreach program, a school-based program begun by the Junior League of St. Louis (Missouri) and designed to decrease the incidence of teenage pregnancy and increase the number of at-risk teenagers who successfully complete their high school education. It is noted that Teen Outreach…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students, High Schools
McDaniel, Charles W., Jr.; And Others – 1990
The Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA) Title-B mandates that some of its monies be used for remediation of basic skills and places new emphasis on literacy. The act also requires that a system be developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the remediation program. In West Virginia the summer implementation program for JPTA eligible students that…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Dropout Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Secondary Education
Druian, Greg – 1986
Characteristics and practices of effective schools have been identified and it is important to determine whether these practices work with at-risk youth. Effective schools research may yield useful knowledge in educating at-risk youth or research could warn that the effective schools movement could threaten the education of at-risk youth if not…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
