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Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1991
The Des Moines Public Schools' New Horizons Program provides supportive services such as counseling, attendance monitoring, career-related instruction, and work experience to dropout-prone high school students and their families in order to improve students' school achievement and increase their graduation rate. Program services make it possible…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Budgets, Dropout Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedRepa, Barbara Kate – Social Education, 1990
Recounts a lawyer's personal experience teaching high school students from the wrong side of the tracks about the U.S. Constitution as part of a pilot program. Suggests that linking legal issues to students' personal lives. Can inspire as well as inform. (CH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law
Download full textChow, Stanley; And Others – 1996
This report examines current practices in defining, identifying, documenting, and tracking school dropouts in Ogden City School District (Utah), as well as demographic and personal characteristics of Ogden's high school dropouts. Data collection included a review of school and district records, interviews with administrators and staff, and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Rippner, Mary – 1992
The Businesses as On-Site Schools (BOSS) program was established as a dropout prevention effort combined with employability training for at-risk high school students. The setting was a vocational/educational alternative center in Florida. Businesses were contacted, and verbal intent to provide on-the-job training and an onsite mentor was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Education, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
Fortune, Dorothy; Sims, Adrienne – 1990
The Student Transition and Retention Program (STAR), one of 10 federally-funded model dropout prevention programs, was created to address the high dropout rate in Santa Ana (California) public high schools. Students participating in the STAR program, complete a vocational course providing them with important job skills, and also receive support to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Counseling Services
Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC. – 1988
Information in this guide is based on published research concerning effective strategies in dealing with at-risk youth. It was written for those communities invited to develop proposals under the Annie E. Casey Foundation's New Futures Initiative in an attempt to alleviate problems that compromise American children's futures. Each of three…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Stedman, James B.; And Others – 1988
This study investigates the role of background characteristics and in-school and out-of-school experiences on public high school dropout rates using data on the 1980 sophomore class from the High School and Beyond Survey. Major findings include the following: (1) dropping out of high school is a complex phenomenon, influenced by an interaction of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Washington, DC. Project on Equal Education Rights. – 1988
The personal stories of young women who have either dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out, reveal a complex set of perceptions, interpretations, and contradictions regarding the roles of race, gender, and class in their behavior and attitudes. A one-year research project was conducted in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) with 75 females,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Tallmadge, G. Kasten; And Others – 1981
The Career Intern Program (CIP) is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or postsecondary education, and to facilitate their transition from school to work. CIP components are instruction, counseling,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention
Klibanoff, Leonard S. – 1981
A study analyzed the cost of the Career Intern Program (CIP). (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or postsecondary education, and to facilitate their transition from school to work by…
Descriptors: Budgets, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Tallmadge, G. Kasten; Yuen, Sandra D. – 1981
A study assessed the impact of the Career Intern Program (CIP) on participating students. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or postsecondary education, and to facilitate their transition…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Education, Case Studies, Dropout Prevention
Fetterman, David M. – 1981
A study identified causal linkages and basic interrelationships among components of the Career Intern Program (CIP) and observed outcomes. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…
Descriptors: Career Education, Counseling Services, Curriculum, Dropout Prevention
Langsdorf, Michael; Gibboney, Richard A. – 1977
Efforts of the Career Intern Program (CIP) to help urban youth get a basic education and further training or a paying job, are described in this report, written for the educator or school board member interested in a program combining basic and career education for high school youth who are not succeeding in regular schools (dropouts or those…
Descriptors: Administrators, Admission Criteria, Career Development, Career Education
Foat, Classie M. – 1981
A study compared the Career Intern Program (CIP) with five other alternative youth programs. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or postsecondary education, and to facilitate their transition from…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Treadway, Peter G.; And Others – 1981
A study examined whether the Career Intern Program (CIP) can be replicated in new sites at reasonable cost within a reasonable period of time. (The CIP is an alternative high school designed to enable disadvantaged and alienated dropouts or potential dropouts to earn regular high school diplomas, to prepare them for meaningful employment or…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services
