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Flora, Pat T. – 1989
This guide is intended to encourage South Carolina secondary vocational education administrators, teachers, and counselors to implement programs designed to keep potential dropouts in school and recover those who leave school prematurely, as well as to provide those educators with research findings relevant to such activities. Following an…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Community Resources, Dropout Prevention
Coleman, James M. – 1986
This paper summarizes reports of various Ohio committees and offices that have studied attendance and dropout problems and have developed strategies and recommendations for dealing with them. Those strategies and recommendations are provided along with the following: (1) a statement of the problem and its scope; (2) a list of roles and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention
Tinto, Vincent – 1987
The dimensions and consequences of college student attrition and features of institutional action to deal with attrition are discussed. Patterns of student departure from individual colleges as opposed to permanent college withdrawal are addressed. After synthesizing the research on multiple causes of student leaving, a theory of student departure…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, College Students, Dropout Prevention
Download full textStern, David; And Others – 1986
This report on the high proportion (25 percent) of California high school students who drop out is divided into five major sections. The first discusses the historical shifts in reform efforts to address, alternately, "relevance" and "excellence." It finds that high school students are now more bored and apathetic than…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Welch, Joseph; McKenna, Ellen – 1988
This report describes the success of SWAS (School Within a School), an early dropout intervention program designed for average to above-average at-risk middle school students selected by the assistant principal. SWAS is a temporary self-contained institution within Davisville Middle School, North Kingstown, Rhode Island. As a prerequisite to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Heerman, Charles E. – 1982
It is uncertain what a college reading program can do to enhance retention of college students who leave before graduating. Unfortunately, studies of college reading instruction's impact on grade point average (GPA) have not produced clear results. Additional content instruction, however, has been found to have significant impact on GPA's. Still,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Dropout Prevention, Higher Education, Reading Achievement
Bergquist, Constance C. – 1983
The Occupational Proficiency Training Program (OPT) was initiated in Mitchell County High School, Georgia, to identify potential dropouts, place them in an alternative vocational education program, provide special communications and mathematics assistance, and maintain knowledge through recordkeeping of a student's progress through the program.…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Weisel, Laura P.; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to identify the characteristics of high risk students in selected Ohio Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs, and to describe the characteristics of the programs in order to identify program characteristics related to the retention of participants. Nine programs, selected to represent programs of various sizes (small, medium,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
CANGEMI, JOSEPH P.; FANTINI, MARIO D.
GOALS OF THE PROJECT ARE TO INVESTIGATE AVAILABLE RESEARCH CONCERNING DROPOUTS, TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL DROPOUTS, TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL, TO INCREASE THE SCHOOL-HOLDING POWER, TO EQUIP UNSKILLED STUDENTS WITH SKILLS, TO INCREASE VOCATIONAL, ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE AND INTERESTS, AND TO DEVELOP…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
Shulman, Carol Herrnstadt – ERIC Higher Education Research Currents, 1976
For the future, college and university administrators face the problem of maintaining a satisfactory enrollment level. They recognize that reducing attrition may be a useful approach to their enrollment problems, but remedies for attrition are not readily developed. There is a consensus that campus administrators can use the available research to…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Attendance, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention
Neal, Pamela – 1975
The existence of compulsory school attendance at the secondary level may help to assure school attendance for some students, but it does little to assure that any will learn. Both the laws requiring attendance and the basic high school programs offered in most states must be remodeled. Arizona's system provides a good example. Although Arizona's…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Education, Career Opportunities, Child Labor
Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. – 1974
This annotated bibliography is the eighth in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on "Dropouts" reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: Dropout Prediction; Dropout Prevention (Work Study Programs, Other Vocational Programs,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
LaRue, Patricia E.; Miller, Virginia R. – Spectrum, 1988
The Reading (Pennsylvania) School District, in conjunction with local youth and family services, has developed a program to address the needs of unwed mothers. Its goals are to reduce their dropout rate and to provide support services including child care, transportation, counseling, health care, and instruction in parenthood skills.(TE)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Early Parenthood, Pregnant Students
Peer reviewedMarockie, Henry; Jones, H. Lawrence – Education and Urban Society, 1987
To reduce its dropout rate, Ohio County Schools in Wheeling, West Virginia implemented a multifaceted, sequential intervention plan. Its success indicates that direct, personal, immediate, and caring communication with parents and students remains the most effective and least costly way to link home with school. (Author/LHW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Coyle, M. Berchmans; And Others – College Board Review, 1985
Pace University's efforts to attract and retain adult students include contacting nonmatriculated students to encourage commitment and resolve problems and contacting part-time students the first semester they stop attending. The results of the university taking the initiative have been increased retention and greater information about student…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dropout Prevention, Higher Education, Part Time Students
