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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1991
This document presents recommendations to the Texas state legislature for meeting a 1997-98 goal of reducing the projected longitudinal and cross-sectional state dropout rates. Data for 1986 indicate that approximately 86,000 students were dropping out of Texas schools every year. The recommendations presented here were determined: (1) by tracing…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Peer reviewedToby, Jackson; Armor, David J. – Public Interest, 1992
Traces strategies for preventing high school dropouts from the traditional reliance on remediation or incentives to recent negative sanctions (e.g., West Virginia's "no school, no drive" law). The General Educational Development Program serves those who return voluntarily to school after having realized the importance of education. (JB)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
