Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 5 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 13 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 34 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 129 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Anderson, Floyd L. | 14 |
Grannis, Joseph | 8 |
Sherman, Joel D. | 7 |
East, Leon | 5 |
Stern, David | 5 |
Bloom, Dan | 4 |
Conrath, Jerry | 4 |
Faddis, Constance R. | 4 |
Smink, Jay | 4 |
Wilkinson, David | 4 |
Balfanz, Robert | 3 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 111 |
Policymakers | 84 |
Administrators | 50 |
Researchers | 25 |
Teachers | 22 |
Community | 11 |
Counselors | 10 |
Parents | 5 |
Students | 4 |
Support Staff | 1 |
Location
New York (New York) | 61 |
California | 37 |
Texas | 29 |
New York | 27 |
Florida | 22 |
Canada | 20 |
Pennsylvania | 19 |
Michigan | 14 |
North Carolina | 14 |
Australia | 12 |
District of Columbia | 12 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 3 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 3 |
Does not meet standards | 4 |
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The High School Redirection Program was designed to maintain 240 potential dropouts in an educational-vocational setting while assisting them to progress toward a high school diploma. Students were admitted from 13 high schools in Brooklyn and from Andrew Jackson in Queens. They were to follow a work-study program through the summer and regular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Records, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Freeberg, Norman E.; Reilly, Richard G. – 1972
Correlations between the Enrollee Test Battery (ETB) and performance on more conventional tests were examined to determine the ETB validity, in addition to a small-Scale study of predictive validity of both ETB and the conventional tests. Three types of paper and pencil measures were utilized: the ETB, conventional cognitive skills tests, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Black Youth, Cognitive Tests
Erickson, Edsel; And Others – 1971
The main stated purpose of this project is to send 100 Family Assistants who are familiar with the community into the homes of senior high school students who show serious problems in school attendance, adjustment, and/or achievement. The project is designed to provide a link between home and school for 15,000 such potential dropouts by having the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitude Change, Dropout Characteristics
Sanguinetti, Jill, Ed.; Jones, Myfanwy, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings document some of the work and the stories of literacy teachers who work with youth outside the school system and help to paint the educational and policy context of their work. "Professionalism and Passion: A Report on Teachers Working with the Literacy Needs of Unemployed Youth" (Beverley Campbell) introduces the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Developed Nations, Dropout Programs

Hamovitch, Bram A. – Teachers College Record, 1996
Investigates the informal curriculum of a state-funded after-school dropout prevention program for adolescents. The program's goal is to resocialize them into their schools and enable them to achieve academic success. The paper proposes that the program fails to achieve its goal because of its ideology, and it recommends an alternative perspective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Bermudez, Andrea B.; Palumbo, David – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1994
Focuses on the need to consider linguistic differences when planning strategies for the school dropout population. Hypermedia, a technology tool for accessing information, provides support for the necessary conditions to be met for language acquisition to take place: providing a concrete task and emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Thinking, Dropout Programs

Ryan, Ann Grasso; Price, Lynda – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This article examines trends in the education of adults with learning disabilities, focusing on dropout prevention, postdropout education, disability self-awareness, transition, Adult Basic Education, higher education, vocational education, employment, and psychosocial issues. Organizational sources of further information and a table listing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs

Curley, John R. – Urban Review, 1991
Executive and legislative branches of the New York State government have made consistent efforts to address the dropout problem, which is particularly acute in urban schools, through new initiatives and increased funding. State aid programs are summarized, and suggestions for improvement are provided. (SLD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged

Cicchelli, Terry; Baecher, Richard E. – School Community Journal, 1993
Evaluates a five-year university-school partnership/dropout prevention program involving Fordham University's Graduate Schools of Education and Social Services and five New York City public schools with substantial minority populations. Results show that absenteeism declined significantly, child care conditions improved modestly, self-esteem…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College School Cooperation, Dropout Programs
Louallen, Debra; And Others – 1993
This report contains 11 tables and 5 figures documenting the results for the General Educational Development (GED) tests in 1992. The tables provide information on the following: testing volumes; percent tested by age group; credentials issued by age group; testing by language; testing by special editions and adaptations; highest grade completed;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Adult Basic Education, Dropout Programs
Baldwin, Janet, Ed. – 1995
This report contains 13 tables and 13 figures documenting the results for the General Educational Development (GED) tests in 1994. The tables and figures provide information on the following: GED participation and credentials issued--percent change from 1993 to 1994; testing volumes; percent tested by age group; credentials issued by age group;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Adult Basic Education, Dropout Programs
Tucker, Marc – 1994
The core features of the preindustrial model of school-to-work transition are needed now. An environment must be recreated in which young people see the vital connections among education, training, and work that were once so clear. The emerging consensus model has these features: combined formal schooling and structured on-the-job training leading…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1993
State legislation requires that the Texas Education Agency write a plan to reduce the state's cross-sectional and longitudinal dropout rates to no more than 5 percent by 1997-98. This report presents the current plan, with current aggregate and disaggregate data on the dropout rate of students in grades 7 through 12 and projections for…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Educational Change
Denham, Alice, Ed. – 1987
This proceedings report presents dropout statistics, descriptions of prevention programs, and recommendations for future efforts. After an introduction to the dropout problem, the proceedings contains transcripts of welcomes and greetings from the mayor of Lubbock and officials from Texas Tech's College of Education, the State Board of Education,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Costs, Dropout Prevention
Opuni, Kwame A.; And Others – 1991
The Elementary At-Risk Program was an intensive counseling, guidance, community outreach, and family case-management support system for a selected group of acutely at-risk students (approximately 60 students at one level and 180 students at another) in eight Houston (Texas) Independent School District (ISD) elementary schools. Social worker…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Counseling, Dropout Prevention