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Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Setting the Stage for New High Schools": Alliance, National League of Cities Cohost Capitol Hill Briefing…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Finance, Public Education, Newsletters
Download full textJerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
This is the second in a series of issue briefs to be written for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement during 2006. In this issue brief, the author examines what recent research says about high school dropouts and explains the powerful role schools can play in keeping students on track to graduate. The latter includes…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, Dropout Prevention, Graduation Rate
Peer reviewedBost, Loujeania Williams; Riccomini, Paul J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2006
Although researchers have clearly connected dropping out of school to prolonged low achievement, to date, effective teaching practices are largely absent from the milieu of interventions and programs that are employed by schools to address dropout prevention. As such, effective instructional design and delivery as a focus for keeping students with…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Teaching Methods, Researchers, Dropouts
Monrad, Maggie – National High School Center, 2007
The high school dropout problem is a crisis for the United States, in part because it impacts not only individuals and their education, but also because the economic and social costs are so dramatic. This fact sheet highlights the problem of dropout prevention facing America's high schools today. It provides information on the students most likely…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, High School Students, Social Influences
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2007
This article discusses a program at John Adams High School in New York City that helps students who have fallen behind acquire the credits they need to graduate, while still enabling them to hold a job and meet family obligations. The program is one of 20 Young Adult Borough Centers operated by the New York City Department of Education in…
Descriptors: College Planning, Young Adults, Social Work, Graduation
Access, The Education Clearinghouse for Economic Development, Tallahassee, FL. – 1988
This document consists of a compilation of partnership activities and programs relating to dropout prevention. Emphasis is placed on activities occurring in Florida, although there are some national organizations and programs highlighted in the report. The report is intended to provide the reader with an awareness of the different ways…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Partnerships in Education, Potential Dropouts, Secondary Education
The Metropolitan Youth Education Center: A Colorado Solution to the Problem of High School Dropouts.
Jacques, Mary Jo – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
The Metropolitan Youth Education Center in Denver (Colorado) offers flexible scheduling, small classes, and a broad range of courses to help high school dropouts earn diplomas. (MLF)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High Schools
Yaffe, Elaine – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Questions the recent idea that students must stay in school through the 12th grade. Describes programs that have been developed in the Colorado Springs (Colorado) area to cope with the dropout problem. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, School Counseling
Maurer, Richard D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Describes Project Intercept in Ossining (New York), which cut the high school's dropout, absence, and failure rates by involving teachers, students, and families. The program uses four major strategies--teacher/staff inservice training, alternative academic programs, student training in social and interpersonal skills, and family intervention…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Models, School Holding Power
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Bridgeland, John M.; DiIulio, John J., Jr; Wulsin, Stuart C. – Civic Enterprises, 2008
With goals in mind of engaging children in education and preparing them to address the nation's challenges, this report suggests service-learning could be a potential way to not only stem the tide of dropouts, but create a new generation of youth who are academically prepared for success in college and who possess a strong sense of civic…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Prevention, Focus Groups, At Risk Students
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2008
This paper presents a list of resources on what states are doing on the topic of Black male dropouts. These resources are taken from the report abstracts or summaries. This paper is a response to a request asking for these resources. (Contains 5 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Research, Dropouts, Males
Greenwood, Peter – Future of Children, 2008
Over the past decade researchers have identified intervention strategies and program models that reduce delinquency and promote pro-social development. Preventing delinquency, says Peter Greenwood, not only saves young lives from being wasted, but also prevents the onset of adult criminal careers and thus reduces the burden of crime on its victims…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delinquency, Social Behavior, Correctional Institutions
Cleveland Public Schools, OH. – 1986
This paper provides information on dropouts and dropout prevention in Cleveland public schools. It is divided into five sections, which provide, respectively: (1) brief descriptions of nine prevention programs; (2) an operational definition of dropouts; (3) 1984-85 dropout data (by cohort survival in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, at the city level…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, High Schools
Reese, Susan – Techniques Making Education and Career Connections, 2005
There are many reasons why students drop out of school, and therefore, it requires more than a single solution to prevent it from occurring. According to the National Dropout Prevention Center, career and technical education should be included as part of the overall solution. This article is divided into the following sections: A Model Program;…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship
