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Download full textGunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Hunter, Susanne; Kettle, Helen – 1979
The Kumtuks program, an alternative rehabilitation program established by the Vancouver School Board in 1976 for Native Indian students, is described. Kumtuks was established to retain students between grades 6 and 9 when the drop-out rate among Native Indian students is the highest. The results of the evaluation of the first two years (1976-78),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Canada Natives, Continuation Students
Nyberg Consultants, Ltd. – 1994
This is the third and final year-end report on the START program in Alberta (Canada). START was a dropout prevention project funded by Alberta Education and Alberta/NWT Region Human Resources Development Canada, successor to Employment and Immigration Canada. START addressed dropout prevention through a variety of school and community initiatives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Case Studies
Nyberg Consultants, Ltd. – 1994
START was a dropout prevention project funded by Alberta Education and Alberta/NWT Region Human Resources Development Canada, successor to Employment and Immigration Canada. START addressed dropout prevention through a variety of school and community initiatives primarily targeting students in the junior high school years. In the 1993-94 school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Case Studies, Dropout Prevention
