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Direct linkStephanie A. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this program evaluation was to evaluate the impact of CORE District's Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC) Program at an urban Title I high school located in Southern California. BTSC aims to improve the ninth-grade experience through a focus on five key change drivers and the implementation of improvement science. Through teacher…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, High Schools
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1986
This report on California dropouts draws on a large body of current research and features the correlates known to be associated with dropouts. It also details what is known and not known about the magnitude of the dropout phenomenon. Section I provides an introduction to the report. Section II presents a description of the reasons that students…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, High Schools
Cuellar, Alfredo – 1992
This paper, a follow-up to a previous review of literature on academic excellence that synthesized information from the United States and Mexico, describes an ethnographic study of high-achieving and low-achieving Hispanic secondary school students from Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California Mexico. Five students for each group were…
Descriptors: Ethnography, High Achievement, High Risk Students, High Schools
Dixon, Donald A. – 1992
This paper presents an analysis of a California state mandated effort to reduce dropout rates. In particular, the analysis looks at which program components and strategies are successful in increasing school holding power and what organizational and administrative factors are linked to the decision to actually implement the program as designed.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Coordinators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Dayton, Charles; And Others – 1988
In the fall of 1985, 10 academy programs were established by the State of California as replications of the Peninsula Academies already operating in a local school district for four years. An academy is a modified high school program with the following specific elements, among others: (1) students with academic potential who are at risk of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Rate, High Risk Students
Dayton, Charles; And Others – 1987
The Peninsula Academies is a three-year high school program for at-risk students, designed to provide them with incentives both to graduate and to acquire labor market-relevant skills. An academy combines academic and technical training in a school-within-a-school setting, and is based on school-business partnerships. In the fall of 1985, 10…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Rate, High Risk Students
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1977
This document is designed to identify several types of vocational education programs and activities that are in operation in California's school districts and communities. Although the document primarily focuses on California programs, information in all sections--particularly those titled Vocational Education Advisory Committees, Scope of…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Certification, Community Involvement
