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McMahon, William G. – 1986
Increasing numbers of special needs offenders reflect the proportionate growth of the general incarcerated population. Prevention should be aimed at working with local school districts to identify youth with learning problems who may eventually drop out of school. Many of the developmentally disabled and learning disabled persons who end up in the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Advocacy, Cooperative Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation
Alpern, Michael – 1991
The Integrated Occupational Program (IOP) is a new program of studies that is being developed and implemented by Alberta Education (Canada) to meet the needs of students who are identified as being at risk and unable to cope with the regular program. A major feature of the program is its emphasis on first developing students' self-esteem and then,…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Watts, Owen; And Others – 1987
This study was designed to investigate the effects of the changes suggested in the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in Western Australia (Beazley Report) and the Report of the Ministerial Working Party on School Certification and Tertiary Admissions Procedures (McGaw Report). Special attention was directed to the impact that the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developed Nations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Download full textNichols, Joe D.; Steffy, Betty E. – 1997
This paper presents findings of a study that examined an alternative learning program in a large urban school district in the midwestern United States. The goal of the project was to determine if the specific alternative learning program could have a positive effect on student motivation, goal orientation, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Research…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Dropout Rate, High Risk Students, Nontraditional Education
Baker, Anita M.; Weinbaum, Alexandra T. – 1992
A study was done to describe the development of seven alternative schools for youth who dropped out of high school or who were at risk of doing so on the model of a Brooklyn (New York) alternative school, High School Redirection. The replication demonstration took place in the 1988-89 and 1989-90 school years in Cincinnati (Ohio), Denver…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Peng, Samuel S.; Lee, Ralph M. – 1992
Findings of a study that examined the relationship between student demographic characteristics and at-risk status are presented in this paper. Demographic characteristics likely to place students at risk include low family income, low parental education, single-parent family, and limited-English proficiency. Data were derived from the National…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Bowman, Clay; And Others – 1991
Findings from a study designed to evaluate the Houston Independent School District's (HISD) program for identifying students at risk of dropping out are presented in this report. In the 1988-89 school year HISD employed a scheme of four state-mandated criteria for identifying at-risk students, and this scheme's performance in predicting actual…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate
Gifford, Beverly – 1987
To combat their school dropout problems, Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools created an alternative high school for marginal and high risk students attending conventional high schools and for students who had already dropped out. Classes at North Education Center were scheduled from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and featured year-round, 42-day terms to…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High Risk Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Haenn, Joseph F. – 1997
The Durham Public Schools Communities in Schools (CIS) Academy provides a student-centered environment that encourages high-risk students to remain in school and get back on track for graduation. Program operations began in January 1995. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the first semester of operations (the second semester of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Frost, Lynda E. – 1992
The theoretical constructs underlying legislative approaches to at-risk student statutes are examined in this paper, with attention given to the ways in which educational institutions make certain factors significant to student success. Legislative approaches closely follow the epidemiology model, which attempts to identify, predict, and immunize…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection
Stowitschek, Joseph J.; And Others – 1990
This paper describes a data-based screening tool for identifying at-risk students. It is intended to complement referral and other qualitative means of identification. The Computerized Risk Index Screening Program (CRISP) is an application of a commonly available data management program that: (1) provides a school-based screening system; (2) can…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Database Management Systems, Educational Diagnosis
Kalinke, Wilbur F. – 1989
This presentation describes dropout facts and prevention methods based on nationwide interviews with dropout runaways. Potential dropout runaways might be labeled the "distracted ones." They have trouble concentrating in a typical classroom situation as they are distracted by events that happened at home or that might happen after school. Such…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Biggins, Catherine M.; Sainz, Jo-Ann – 1989
Many functionally illiterate freshmen feel helpless in the face of their inability to learn to read at a competent level. College freshmen who drop out because of this disability are losers who suffer tremendous disadvantages when they leave college without earning a diploma. Possible causes of functional illiteracy hindering the least educated…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Illiteracy, Learning Disabilities
Timberlake, Constance H. – 1981
Literature reveals that students most apt to be potential dropouts are those referred to as a "high risk population." Black females depict the assumed poorest risk among an already high risk group. A study of black female secondary school students regarded as potential dropouts attempted to determine if persisters' and non-persisters' attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Females
Wang, Sheng-mei – 2002
The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify factors related to dropout/retention for distance education students in order to identify variables that might promote participation through completion. The major focus of the study was to document the distance education students' learning progress and to identify variables that relate to their…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
