A program in British Columbia places at-risk high school students with one teacher for the remainder of their high school years. The integrated curriculum, constructed to be relevant to their lives, combined with the emphasis on respect, compassion, trustworthiness, and tolerance have enabled almost 100 students to graduate from the program. (TD)

This paper presents a four-fold typology developed as a general theory of student motivation to stay in school and work hard at learning tasks. Each of the four-fold categories is described with an initial statement of the specific source of student motivation, an analysis of how the source fits in more general motivational theories, and how the…

This evaluation of the 1989-90 Bilingual Resource Instruction for the Development of Gainful Employment Skills (Project BRIDGES) in New York City found that the program met most of its objectives. Project BRIDGES, funded under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, provides the following services to at-risk…

This document, a two-volume report, provides in volume 1 the final longitudinal evaluation of the New York City Dropout Prevention Initiative (DPI), 1985-86 through 1987-88. (The second volume comprises appendices containing summaries of each previous evaluation for this time period.) The DPI was implemented in 13 high schools and 29 feeder middle…

A preliminary examination of two approaches adopted in California to address the high school dropout problem is presented. Focus is on comparing aggregate impacts of State Bill (SB) 65 and of California Local Educational Reform Network (C-LERN) approaches to high school dropout reduction and prevention between 1985-86 and 1987-88. Four groups of…

The Canadian government is meeting the rising demand for highly skilled workers with a $296.4 million national dropout prevention initiative over five years. This document, written in both English and French, describes the initiative. More than half of the funds will be allocated to programs and services, more than a quarter to mobilizing…

South Dakota's graduation rate in 1986-87 was above the national average: 79.7% compared to 71.1%. The dropout rate for 1990 was 4.3%. Of 180 districts, 25 with large numbers of Native Americans have a dropout rate of over 7%. Increasing the rates of graduation for Native American students will require a comprehensive, long-range program. Schools…

The New Directions in Bilingualism project completed the final year of a three-year basic program at Morris High School, the Bronx, in June 1985. Major goals were enhancing students' self images, developing native language skills, and improving English language proficiency to allow quicker mainstreaming. The program served 227 recently immigrated,…

In an effort to identify the kinds of vocational experiences that appear to be the most promising in reducing the dropout rate, two distinct research strategies were used. The first strategy involved analysis of data available from the High School and Beyond Project, a nationally representative sample of students and schools surveyed in 1980 (when…

The Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program, designed to provide correspondence course work whereby high school migrant students throughout California may earn credits leading toward completion of their graduation requirements, was evaluated using the following items selected by project staff request, funding guidelines, and consultant…

This manual is designed for teachers and counselors to train high school students as peer counselors. Developed as part of a secondary guidance project designed to maintain enrollment of potential dropouts, this training manual focuses on basic peer counseling skills, such as active listening, effective message sending, self-awareness, helping…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE PRELIMINARY STAGES AND ACTUAL OPERATION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) PROJECT IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, FUNDED UNDER TITLE III OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. HIGH-SCHOOL-AGE NYC BOYS THOROUGHLY RECONDITIONED FIVE DETERIORATED HOMES IN A RELATIVELY NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. NYC GIRLS FURNISHED THE FIRST…

The Cluster Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is a two year mini-school designed for 150 ninth year and 150 tenth year students in ten classes of 30 students each. Students are admitted to the Cluster Program on the basis of being two years or more behind in reading and mathematics skills. The major…

Incoming high school freshmen with a history of low achievement, discipline problems, and hostility towards school and society are characterized by poor self-image, frustration from encountering the regular academic program, an almost total inability to communicate, and no expectation that high school will bring educational success. The resulting…

Failure- and misconduct-prone black and Hispanic high school students were given five weekly sessions of rational-emotive education. Comparisons were made with alternate treatment and on-treatment controls. The rational-emotive groups showed greatest improvement on all dependent variables over an extended period of time. (Author/MFD)