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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The New Directions in Bilingualism project completed the final year of a three-year basic program at Morris High School, the Bronx, in June 1985. Major goals were enhancing students' self images, developing native language skills, and improving English language proficiency to allow quicker mainstreaming. The program served 227 recently immigrated,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textOxley, Diana; And Others – 1988
A 3.5-year study of dropout prevention programs in New York City public schools shows that current programs have been effective in increasing professional and public awareness of the dropout problem and providing needed support to some students. However, the categorical approach of most programs is inadequate, providing special services to only a…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Environment
Erickson, Edsel L.; And Others – 1972
The Cluster Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is a two year mini-school designed for 150 ninth year and 150 tenth year students in ten classes of 30 students each. Students are admitted to the Cluster Program on the basis of being two years or more behind in reading and mathematics skills. The major…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
Career Advancement through Bilingual Educational Skills (Project CABES) completed the second year of a 3-year funding cycle at Seward Park High School on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Project CABES serves 233 recently immigrated, predominantly low-income, ninth through twelfth grade, Hispanic students of limited English proficiency (LEP). Included…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Dropout Prevention
SAVITZKY, CHARLES – 1964
EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON STRENGHTENING INSTRUCTIONAL PLANS BY DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL RESOURCE MATERIALS AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF COORDINATORS TO CONSULT MORE FREQUENTLY WITH SUBJECT TEACHERS TO PLAN COOPERATIVELY FOR THE PROGRESS OF STUDENTS. STEP REMAINED EFFECTIVE IN MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO CONTINUE THEIR SCHOOLING TO GRADUATION, AS WELL AS IN…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Employment Opportunities
Bauer, Jo Anne; And Others – 1989
In 1987, the New York City Board of Education established the following three placement units responsible for improving school attendance and preventing dropping out among at-risk youth: (1) the Central Placement Unit (CPU); (2) the Persons In Need of Supervision (PINS) Diversion Unit; and (3) the Bronx District Attorney's Educational Outreach…
Descriptors: Attendance, Delinquency Prevention, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Blair, George E. – 1970
The Street Academies discussed in this evaluation report are considered to represent outstanding attempts to develop positive culturally different instructional models, rather than the compensatory deficit disadvantaged models that are utilized by regular school programs. Seven chapters discuss the background of the Academies, purposes and…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts
City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY. Queens Coll. – 1984
Operation Success is a pilot project funded by the New York State Education Department to provide support services to high school dropouts and potential dropouts. It offers programs, including employment programs, intended to develop skills, self-awareness and self-direction, enourage career goals, and develop appropriate attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Lieberman, Janet E. – 1979
Designed as an alternative program to reduce absenteeism in four high schools in the Bronx, a career education and academic upgrading experiment placed sixty ninth graders in a special area of Bronx Community College. The students, recruited from among disadvantaged potential dropouts (mostly blacks and Hispanics), attended half-day sessions at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks
Erickson, Edsel; And Others – 1973
This project was designed to bridge the gap between the home and school by sending family assistants into the homes of potential dropouts and youngsters whose school work and behavior are not satisfactory. One hundred and two family assistants acting with schools' attendance coordinators, deans, and guidance personnel, work with pupils whose…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Family Counseling
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
An Evaluation of Project for Increased Achievement and a New Outlook. State Urban Education Program.
New York Univ., NY. Center for Field Research and School Services. – 1973
The intent of this project was to improve the quality of the high school experience for a selected group of "high risk" freshmen by providing them with services beyond those normally made available. At each of six high schools, the guidance counselors together with the counselors of each school's feeder schools, selected a group of 250…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
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
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
An evaluation was done of New York City Board of Education's Project, Guidance Oriented Acquisition of Learning Skills (Project GOALS) for 1989-90. The project, in the first year of a 3-year funding cycle, provided 340 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) from various ethnic backgrounds (including Asian, Hispanic, Eastern European, and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Farrell, Edwin – 1990
The urban high school dropout phenomenon may result from the inability of at-risk students to integrate competing social identities, or "selves." Using Erik Erikson's theory of adolescent personality development as a framework, this study analyzes information gathered from interviews with 73 New York City high school students by peer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, High Risk Students, High School Students
