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Hruska, Richard A., Comp. – Pennsylvania State Department of Education, 2004
Act 49 of 1987 requires the Secretary of Education to provide the General Assembly with an annual report on public school dropouts in Pennsylvania. The purpose of this report is to document the actual number of students who drop out each year and to provide various characteristics about these students. The type of data collected about each dropout…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1987
This interim report examines the second-year implementation of dropout prevention programs in the 42 public schools that are part of the New York Dropout Prevention Initiative (NYDPI). Evaluators employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in gathering data on the 29 middle school and 13 high school program sites, and on the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Download full textMcLaughlin, Michael J. – 1990
There is no need for costly new state or federal dropout prevention programs because 87.1 percent of youth now complete a high school education by age 24, nearly achieving President George Bush's goal of a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2000. Calculations of high national and urban dropout rates based on the number of students who do not…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1988
This study used the cohort method to determine the status of students who participated in the high school Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Program in 1985-86, one year later as of June 30, 1987. Among the findings are the following: (1) 41.3 percent had dropped out of school; (2) 7.2 percent had graduated or passed a General…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cohort Analysis, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Frazer, Linda; Ligon, Glynn – 1991
This paper describes a methodology for the evaluation of dropout prevention programs, for calculating dropout rates, and for comparing alternative programs equitably. A first step involves developing a hierarchy of criteria for evaluating programs. These criteria are used to obtain dropout risk probability for individuals and groups and types of…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Florida State Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Tallahassee. – 1988
This follow-up study finds that very little progress has been made in the state of Florida on the recommendations contained in the Commission on Hispanic Affairs' 1985 Annual Report, "The Hispanic Drop-out Rate," and the 1986 Annual report, "Underrepresentation of Hispanics in State Employment.""The Hispanic Drop-out…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1989
The testimony presented in this report addresses the effects of recent reforms on the achievement of disadvantaged students, their dropout rates, and their enrollments in vocational education. An evaluation of programs in four large-city school districts revealed that educational reform has been neither a disaster nor a boon for the performance of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Dropout Rate, Educational Change
