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Download full textCalifornia State Board of Education, Sacramento. – 1976
This publication presents a brief summary description of an experimental dropout prevention program developed at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California. The program described is Project MACK (More Advanced Careers and Knowledge), a four-year program funded under ESEA Title VIII that operated from the 1971-72 school year through the 1974-75…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Experimental Programs
Besant, Lloyd – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Counseling, Curriculum
Saint Paul Public Schools, Minn. – 1980
The report describes the Out-of-School Youth Program, a vocationally oriented program serving 250 handicapped student dropouts in St. Paul, Minnesota, and presents a model program for handicapped out of school youth based on that existing program. The model program consists of components that focus on the following areas: basic skills,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Career Exploration, Disabilities
MILLER, S.M.; AND OTHERS – 1964
RESEARCH ON SCHOOL DROPOUTS IS HANDICAPPED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS--DEFINITION OF THE DROPOUT POPULATION, INCONSISTENT METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION, INADEQUATE RESEARCH DESIGNS, COMMUNITY VARIATION, VARIATION IN TYPE OF DROPOUT, AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROCESS OF DROPPING OUT. DROPOUT GROUPS SHOULD BE CLEARLY DEFINED, AND VARIATION IN THESE GROUPS…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
BAYLEY, MONICA; AND OTHERS – 1964
FOUR ARTICLES ARE PRESENTED. THE FIRST, "A RENEWED EFFORT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF DROPOUT," BY MONICA BAYLEY, DISCUSSES PROGRAMS IN SEVERAL CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE FOUR IN NEW YORK ARE STEP, CO-OP PROGRAM, OPERATION RETURN, AND HIGHER HORIZONS. IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCHOOL PROGRAMS IS BEING UNDERTAKEN IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, CHICAGO,…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Special Programs
BURROWS, EARL R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
REPORTS WERE RECEIVED FROM ALL COLORADO SCHOOL DISTRICTS ON THE NUMBER OF DROPOUTS FROM GRADES 7 THROUGH 12. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DROPOUTS AND A RANDOM SAMPLING OF CHARACTERISTICS OF SENIORS WERE OBTAINED. PUPIL ACCOUNTABILITY WAS SEPARATED INTO TWO ASPECTS, SUMMER DROPOUT AND UNKNOWN WITHDRAWALS. CONFIRMATION WAS FOUND IN THE RESULTS THAT…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
Miami-Dade Junior Coll., FL. – 1970
Career College (originally known as Cooperative Education Program for Dropouts) was set up under Title I of the Higher Education Act. The objectives of this program focused on familiarizing the individual with the college environment, fostering independence in program participants, and creating a desire in participants to continue their education…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Remedial Programs
Bluhm, Harry P. – 1970
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the employment counselor as a vocational counselor to dropout discussing such topics as: (1) functions, (2) problems of dropouts and their counseling implications, and (3) counseling the dropout. Included in the functions are: (1) representing the Employment Office in coordinating all programs…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling, Counselor Role
East, Leon; Jensen, J. Alan – 1968
The Continuation Education System Development Project technical report of appendix tables includes: (1) a bibliography; (2) letters to schools; (3) the initial in-service training program of Valley staff; (4) data of a teacher evaluation survey; (5) instructional preference scale data; (6) meaning of words inventory data; (7) a physical profile;…
Descriptors: Continuation Education, Continuation Students, Data, Dropout Programs
East, Leon; Dolan, Marylyn A. – 1968
Over a four year period, the Continuation Education System Development Project will develop a practical instructional system capable of continuous identification and efficient response to the critical instructional needs of individual continuation high school students, or those who drop out or are pushed out, in La Puente, California. The first…
Descriptors: Ability, Continuation Education, Continuation Students, Dropout Programs
Wheeler, Susan – Vocational Education Journal, 1988
Describes Jobs through Education and Training (JET), a program for dropouts that offers vocational training, remedial academics, and individual and group therapy. JET serves young people whose problems make them unable to function effectively in a public school environment. (JOW)
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Educational Benefits, High Risk Students, Remedial Programs
Klimko, Ivan; And Others – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1986
The dropout problem is growing at an alarming rate. In California educational clinics are being experimentally developed for use with dropout students. Describes the educational clinic planned for Grant Joint Union High School District. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Development
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2002
This report examines national and regional dropout rate trends; factors associated with dropping out; efforts these factors; and federal efforts to reduce dropout rates. Information came from interviews with National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) officials; review of NCES data and reports by dropout prevention experts; site visits at…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Graduation
Ezekiel, Margaret – Theatre Design and Technology, 1973
A plan for a college educational theatre program to educate and motivate college students who are in danger of becoming dropouts. (CH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Dramatics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Leyton, Francis – Teacher, 1973
Describes an apprenticelike program of arts and crafts'' for fifth and sixth grade boys. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Elementary School Students
