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Direct linkVictor de los Santos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Extracurricular activities have been known to provide students with learning opportunities not always provided in other traditional learning environments such as communication, leadership, problem-solving skills, and emotional awareness, and have shown benefits in improving student engagement and school attendance. These learning opportunities…
Descriptors: Students, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, Extracurricular Activities
Canaan, Serena; Fischer, Stefanie; Mouganie, Pierre; Schnorr, Geoffrey C. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
To boost college graduation rates, policymakers often advocate for academic supports such as coaching or mentoring. Proactive and intensive coaching interventions are effective, but are costly and difficult to scale. We evaluate a relatively lower-cost group coaching program targeted at first-year college students placed on academic probation.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Freshmen, Academic Probation, Grade Point Average
Download full textMarsh, Shannon – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Concerned about the persistently high dropout rates from big-city secondary schools, education leaders are trying a new approach to increasing the graduation rate--multiple pathways to graduation. Multiple pathways initiatives are relatively new and far from proven. Even the most advanced examples face significant issues, i.e., the need to…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
Santa Clara County Office of Education, San Jose, CA. – 1989
The Migrant Education Region 1 of the Santa Clara County Office of Education organized a project to examine the conditions of 1454 migrant students in a sample of northern California schools. The project had two primary components: (1) the collection and analysis of information about migrant students, their family and school situations, and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Lynn, James J.; Woltz, Dan – 1979
The Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program, a pilot correspondence course program specifically designed to assist the Statewide School Dropout Prevention Program by enabling migrant students throughout California to accumulate high school graduation credits more easily, was effective and worthwhile in 1978. Sixty-three curriculum units in…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Correspondence Study
Lynn, James J.; Woltz, Dan – 1979
The Portable Assisted Study Sequence (P.A.S.S.) Program, a pilot high school program designed to support California migrant student graduation through the use of competency based credits and portable learning packets, more than met its goals and objectives in 1978-79. Evaluation was by questionnaire, to which 16% of the surveyed P.A.S.S. students…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Correspondence Study, Credits
