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Direct linkKerris A. Satchell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Online credit recovery (OCR) allows US students at risk of dropping out of school to retake courses to meet graduation requirements and eventually graduate from high school. The problem addressed in this study is that despite participating in online English II credit recovery (ELA II OCR), students in a rural school district in North Florida still…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Dropouts, High School Students, English Instruction
DeGarmo, John Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As more children are placed under foster care, schools often have difficulty in responding to newly placed foster teens. Foster teens often exhibit both academic and behavioral adjustment issues, leading to disciplinary problems and high failure, and dropout rates. Attachment theory related to placement disruptions, school performance and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Placement, Foster Care, School Districts
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Download full textZeller, Pamela J.; Carpenter, Shelly; Lacefield, Warren E.; Applegate, E. Brooks – International Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2013
The GEAR UP graduation coach intervention developed by the GEAR UP Learning Centers at Western Michigan University (WMU) addresses the issue of academic failure of at-risk students in high school. This personalized early intervention strategy begins by assessing students' unique circumstances, academic histories, and strengths and weaknesses in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Coaching (Performance), Academic Failure
Gary, Dia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study was designed to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceptions, attitudes, knowledge, and implementation of RTI based on interviews with 11 special education directors working in rural school districts in eastern Washington. Three questions guided this study. First, what level of general knowledge of the RTI process do…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Early Intervention, General Education, Federal Legislation
Anderson, Patrick L.; Cotton, Christopher S. – 2001
This analysis identified school districts in Michigan that, using a definition most parents would find quite reasonable, have failed to meet their fundamental mission. Using data reported by the school districts themselves and the state Department of Education, the report details the number of such districts, the number of students in those…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Achievement, Poverty
Kozik, Peter L.; Cowles, Richard C.; Sweet, Dale J. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this paper, the authors discuss the new academic eligibility policy for at-risk students of Cato-Meridian, a small rural school district in New York State. The traditional eligibility policy that was in place at Cato-Meridian and surrounding school districts required student athletes to pass all but two of their courses. If they failed two…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Eligibility, Rural Schools, School Districts
