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Blount, Taheera – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
School counselors are charged to identify potential dropouts and they work closely with students to help them stay in school or find alternative means of completing their education. Ninth grade students transitioning to high school experience insurmountable challenges as they shift from middle school to high school. Students who lack the academic…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Risk, Intervention, School Counselors
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Syropoulow, Mike – ERS Spectrum, 1996
Discusses research on successful support programs for potential dropouts. Describes a Detroit high school's Ninth Grade Project 96 program, an intervention strategy for high-risk, low-achieving students. The program used a modified block schedule; attendance, academic, and monitoring interventions; incentives and rewards; and team teachers.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Grade 9, High Risk Students