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Salerno, Anne; Fink, Mary – 1989
The present high school graduation rate for migrant students is approximately 50%, as compared to the 90% dropout rate of 20 years ago. Migrant Education's success has encouraged recent changes in funding to extend services to those youths between 17 and 21 who have not graduated. Attempts to draw dropout youths back to regular or alternative…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Interviews
Duckenfield, Marty; And Others – 1990
Students leave school for many reasons. Pregnancy, family circumstances, economic necessities, substance abuse, lack of academic success, or disciplinary actions can influence a young person's decision to quit school. There is no single solution to the dropout crisis. Just as there are a variety of causes behind a student's decision to drop out of…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1986
This report on California dropouts draws on a large body of current research and features the correlates known to be associated with dropouts. It also details what is known and not known about the magnitude of the dropout phenomenon. Section I provides an introduction to the report. Section II presents a description of the reasons that students…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High Schools
Magyar, Linda F. – 1986
This document presents a study of the effectiveness of the Job Training Partnership Act program Project STAY, designed to impact the dropout problem in Stockton, California area high schools. A literature review discusses dropout characteristics, schools that dropouts leave, employment opportunities for the general population and for dropouts,…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, High School Students
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
This report contains detailed descriptions of three program recommendations regarding public school choice. The recommendations are a result of a study conducted by the New Jersey Department of Education, in which public school choice and magnet schools were examined. The three recommended programs described are (1) Intradistrict Choice Program;…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Lee, Bill; And Others – 1988
School dropouts have been a substantial problem to educators since public education began. This study examined the dropout statistics of selected public schools in the Mississippi Gulf Coast counties of Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson. Subjects included school superintendents (N=29) randomly selected from the 153 Mississippi school districts and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Jackson-Mayer, Sheila; And Others – 1987
This handbook is intended as a practical guide for adult basic education (ABE) directors, counselors, and faculty in an effort to increase ABE student retention. Following a literature review and description of the research problem, part I contains data obtained from the four major surveys administered during a project that investigated the causes…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
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Sheffield, Wesley; Meskill, Victor P. – College Student Journal, 1974
This is a case history of the steps taken by a private institution of higher learning (10,000 students) in the east to cope with the problem of attrition. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Programs, College Students, Dropout Prevention
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Thornburg, Hershel D. – Education, 1974
Study conclusively demonstrated that a special academic program in which positive reinforcement techniques were used is an effective way of changing attitude toward school and self. (Author)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Educational Research
Dovner, Louis B.; Eve, Arthur W. – American School Board Journal, 1974
In the Rockland, Massachusetts, Adult High School Diploma Program, nearly 400 adults are being given credit for the skills, knowledge, and talents they have acquired in the nonschool world. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Mason, Ralph E. – High Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distributive Education, Dropout Programs, Motivation
Scales, Harry H. – J Educ Res, 1969
A survey of 194 California high schools.
Descriptors: Counseling, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
SYNDERMAN, GEORGE S.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE (JEVS), A NONSECTARIAN, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, CONDUCTED TWO PROJECTS WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE AND THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT. THE FIRST PROJECT DEALT WITH 79 TEENAGERS CONSIDERED TO BE HOSTILE, AGGRESSIVE, DEFIANT AND UNMOTIVATED. EACH STUDENT WAS…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Employment Programs, Improvement Programs
MILLER, S.M.; SALEEM, BETTY L. – 1963
AT LEAST 60 OF THE 625 STUDENTS WHO DROPPED OUT OF THE SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN 1959-60 LATER RETURNED TO SCHOOL, AND MANY GRADUATED. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DISCOVER WHY THESE STUDENTS RETURNED, WHAT KINDS OF STUDENTS WERE MOST INFLUENCED BY ADVICE TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, AND WHICH STUDENTS EXPERIENCED THE MOST PRESSURE TO RETURN. SOME…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
MILLER, LEONARD M. – 1964
A REVISED VERSION OF THE 1963 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCE MATERIALS PROVIDES INFORMATION ON IDENTIFYING THE POTENTIAL DROPOUT, ON MEASURES BEING TAKEN BY SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, AND ON THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED ON THE DROPOUT PROBLEM. THE MATERIALS ARE IN SECTIONS--"GENERAL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs
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