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DENTLER, ROBERT A. – 1964
THE PROBLEM OF THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT IS PRESENTED. GOVERNMENT AND MASS MEDIA HAVE INVESTIGATED POTENTIAL DROPOUTS AND ENCOURAGED DROPOUTS TO RETURN TO SCHOOL. IN RECENT YEARS VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWAL OF STUDENTS FROM HIGH SCHOOL HAS DECLINED FROM 70 PERCENT IN 1920 TO 25 PERCENT 1960. A LEVELING OFF AT 15 PERCENT SHOULD OCCUR BY 1975. RECURRENT…
Descriptors: Delinquent Rehabilitation, Dropouts, Educationally Disadvantaged, Ethnic Grouping
GIBBONS, MARILYN – 1965
THE HOMEWORK HELPER PROGRAM INVOLVES APPROXIMATELY 250 ACADEMICALLY SUPERIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE TUTORING APPROXIMATELY 600 FOURTH- AND FIFTH-GRADE RETARDED READERS. THE PURPOSES ARE TO PROVIDE MODELS SO THAT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN CAN IDENTIFY WITH SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS, TO GIVE THE CHILDREN HELP WITH BASIC SKILLS, TO ENCOURAGE…
Descriptors: After School Education, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
