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Direct linkWeiler, Lindsey M.; Chesmore, Ashley A.; Pryce, Julia; Haddock, Shelley A.; Rhodes, Tara – Youth & Society, 2019
Mentoring-based interventions for adolescent offenders are promising strategies for reducing the likelihood of academic underachievement, truancy, and school dropout. Program effectiveness, however, varies widely. Investigation into factors that strengthen the impact of mentoring on academic-related outcomes is warranted. One factor might be…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Delinquency, Adolescents
Balenzano, Caterina; Moro, Giuseppe; Cassibba, Rosalinda – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: The article describes an evaluation study to test the effectiveness of "Storie in gioco" project (Stories in Play, Storie in gioco [SIG]), a dropout prevention intervention aimed to prevent early school leaving (ESL) in at risk students. Method: The research used a mixed-method approach: in the quantitative phase, a two-group…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Dropouts, At Risk Students
Download full textMogale, Makobo Lydia; Modipane, Mpho Calphonia – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Globally, policy implementation in the education system has been found to be a challenging area of development. The South African education system is no exception to the ineffective implementation of policies. For example, in South Africa, the progression policy was introduced by the Department of Education in 2013 for the purpose of minimising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Fergus, Meredith; Whelan, Nicole – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2021
In 2015, the Minnesota Legislature enacted a state postsecondary educational attainment goal that 70% of Minnesota adults (age 25 to 44) will have attained a postsecondary certificate or degree by 2025 (Minn. Laws 2015 Chapter 69 Article 3 Sec. 6). Most importantly in recognition of existing gaps in attainment, the law also sets 30% and 50%…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, College Graduates, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; Martínez A., Claudia – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent School Relationship, Information Dissemination, Computer Mediated Communication
Smith, RaQuaam; Klare, Matthew; Fowler, Catherine – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative, 2021
This set of resources organizes evidence-based strategies for re-engaging and supporting students with disabilities and their families through school completion. This document is comprised of three related quick references--Part 1: Identify Who Is Missing; Part 2: Re-Engaging Students; and Part 3: Continuing Ongoing Dropout Prevention. Each…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
Chunfu Cheng – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Many community college students in the U.S. do not complete a credential or degree, thus facing dramatically reduced earning potential (Levesque, 2018). The purpose of this study was to understand and examine why students drop out with the intent of developing practical and feasible solutions to prevent them from dropping out. This Action Research…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
Dina Perfetti-Deany – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Over the last 100 years, the overwhelming majority of Americans have attended this nation's public schools. There are clearly documented deleterious effects for students who do not successfully graduate from high school. Further, scholars and practitioners have recognized the adverse impacts on communities and the economy. Unfortunately, Colorado…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Public Schools, Middle School Students, At Risk Students
Lavertu, Stéphane; Tran, Long – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2022
After a tumultuous reception, the Biden administration's regulations for the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP) were finalized in July. Although the Administration backpedaled partway on issues related to community demand and racial integration, its final rules cracked down on so-called "for-profit charters," in line with the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Educational Legislation, Educational Administration
Harris, Kristi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Limited research results have been provided on the influence of schools on dropout prevention, which consist of the accountability system and how teachers' attitudes affect students' decisions to dropout. The specific problem of interest was how the accountability model and teacher-student relationships plays a vital role in student dropout. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Models, Teacher Student Relationship, Dropout Prevention
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2017
In 2014-15, the high school graduation rate reached a record high of 83 percent (U.S. Department of Education 2016). Despite the gains, over half a million students still drop out of high school each year (U.S. Department of Education 2015). High schools have adopted various strategies designed to keep students who are at risk of not graduating in…
Descriptors: Mentors, High School Students, At Risk Students, Dropout Prevention
Terrell, Misty – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2017
Early warning systems (EWS), in the context of secondary transition, are tools that analyze individual student-level data and estimate each student's risk of dropping out of school or completing school on time. Such tools generally consider three primary types of data--commonly referred to as the A, B, Cs: attendance/absence data,…
Descriptors: Identification, Intervention, Secondary School Students, At Risk Students
Orpinas, Pamela; Raczynski, Katherine; Hsieh, Hsien-Lin; Nahapetyan, Lusine; Horne, Arthur M. – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: High school completion provides health and economic benefits. The purpose of this study is to describe dropout rates based on longitudinal trajectories of aggression and study skills using teacher ratings. Methods: The sample consisted of 620 randomly selected sixth graders. Every year from Grade 6 to 12, a teacher completed a…
Descriptors: Aggression, Middle School Students, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies
Downes, Paul – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
With early school leaving prevention being an agreed European Union headline target of 10% across the EU by 2020, emotional-relational dimensions to education are gaining renewed attention in European education policy. Against this backdrop, prominent criticisms of an emotional well-being agenda in education by Ecclestone and Hayes require further…
Descriptors: Well Being, Models, Emotional Experience, Educational Policy
