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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
Over the past decade, research on dropout prevention has become focused on using evidence-based practice, and data-driven decisions, to mitigate students' dropping out of high school and instead, support and prepare students for career and college. Early warning systems or on-track indicators, in which readily available student-level data are used…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Dropout Prevention, Evidence, At Risk Students
MONTGOMERY, JAMES R. – 1964
THIS CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN AUGUST 1964 TO ENCOURAGE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE AREA OF COLLEGE ATTRITION. APPROXIMATELY 25 PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES. SELECTED PROCEEDINGS WERE REPORTED. PART ONE TOPICS WERE INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES, WARNING SIGNS OF THE DROPOUT, AVENUES OF PREVENTION, AIDS FOR DROPOUTS, AND…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, College Instruction, College Preparation, College Students
Reddick, Thomas L.; Peach, Larry E. – 1990
The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of at-risk students and review certain circumstances that affect their decisions to leave or stay in school. Mail survey responses were collected from 272 students (out of a total of 300) in 15 rural Tennessee high schools. The subjects were identified by their guidance counselors as being…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Family Characteristics