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Download full textMcCracken, Kasey – Online Submission, 2006
The INVEST sessions are intended to help AISD students and their parents improve communication skills, improve anger management strategies, develop positive conflict resolution methods, develop problem solving skills, and access support services as needed. When a middle or high school student in AISD is removed from the home campus to the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Middle School Students, High School Students, Substance Abuse
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Educational Quality, Urban Schools
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1983
The Evaluation System of the District of Columbia Public Schools has several purposes. It is designed to enable the school system to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and to identify characteristics of programs that seem to increase effectiveness. Also, it is designed to enable the schools to follow particular students over a period of years,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Data Collection, Elementary Education
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1982
Information necessary to the planning of the 1982-83 Austin (Texas) Independent School District Chapter I Program is provided in four sections. The first section describes in detail how the attendance areas were ranked by percentages of low-income students. The second section describes ranking procedures altered to reflect differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Needs
Goldsmith, Ross P.; Babcock, Marilyn – 1979
Results of an evaluation of the Colorado Bilingual Education Program are presented. Data contained in the Colorado Bilingual Education Unit's evaluation reports were analyzed to determine the extent to which the programs have been successful in 1977-78 in meeting the objectives of the Colorado Bilingual Bicultural Education Act. Assessment areas…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education, Dropout Rate, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedVisscher, Adrie J.; Bos, Klaas T. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The use of the Absence Registration System (ARS), a computer-assisted system that supports registration of absent students, and its effects on truancy were studied in 30 Dutch urban secondary schools. Reasons why results do not show a significant reduction in absenteeism are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Attendance Records, Computer Uses in Education
Mulhern, Margaret; And Others – 1994
Considerations in designing and implementing family literacy programs for the limited-English-speaking population are examined and some solutions are illustrated in one federally-funded program for Latino families, Project FLAME (Family Literacy: Aprendiendo, Mejorando, Educando/Learning, Bettering, Educating). An introductory section looks at the…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Family Involvement
Schoener, John E. – 1989
This report evaluates the effectiveness of the Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) program during the 1987-88 school year, which provided services to New York City (New York) middle school students at risk of becoming truant or dropping out of school. Chapter 1, "Introduction," contains the following sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance Patterns, Dropout Prevention, Educational Environment
Tuck, Kathy D.; Shimbuli, Frieda N. – 1988
On the average, 10 percent of District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) students--approximately 8,500 students--are absent from school each day. In order to combat truancy, which often leads to dropping out, DCPS developed the Truancy Prevention Plan, part of a Comprehensive Plan for School Attendance Improvement, which was implemented between…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Communications
Baecher, Richard E.; And Others – 1989
The first 2 years (1986-1988) of the implementation of Fordham University's Stay-In-School Partnership Project (SSPP), a dropout program for urban high-risk children, are described. The long-term goal of the partnership between Fordham's Graduate Schools of Education and Social Science and New York City School District No. 4, a school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
The 1984 "Introduction to High School" program provided seven weeks of academic training for about 600 underachievers in reading and/or mathematics at six Chicago high schools. Evaluation findings indicate that (1) the process of student selection and program implementation during the 1984 program was markedly better that that of the 1983 initial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Direct linkBoroughs, Michael; Massey, Oliver T.; Armstrong, Kathleen H. – Journal of School Violence, 2005
Violence in the schools is a fundamental concern for students, educators and communities as they collectively address issues that make schools safer. A longitudinal analysis of disciplinary referrals was conducted with a large countywide school district to measure differences across socioeconomic status and school level. These variables proved to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Violence, School Safety, Prevention
Reid, Ken – Research in Education, 2004
This study is the first of its kind to focus upon primary head teachers and teachers' attitudes to attendance issues in two distinct but similar-size authorities in England. As part of the fieldwork 192 head teachers were interviewed and a similar number of primary teachers from the same schools. All Heads of special schools within the authorities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Schools, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1994
An evaluation described the patterns of attendance and the factors associated with the persistence of adult education clients during the first 12 months following their enrollment in federally supported adult education programs. Data were gathered from a sample of 16,754 persons who entered a program during the 1-year period beginning April 22,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Attendance
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1983
The New York City Russian Bilingual Program, evaluated here, serves students in grades 9-12 in three public and eight private schools. Three groups of subjects are included in the program: English as a second language, native language arts, and content-area subjects. All students take some mainstream classes from the beginning of the program. In…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), High Schools
