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Download full textGampert, Richard D. – 1989
The 1982-83 school year was the second year of the New York City (New York) Public Schools Promotional Gates Program. Under this program students in grades four and seven who failed to attain their promotional criteria (in both reading and mathematics) were retained for a year of intensive remedial instruction. This report is the result of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Dropout Prevention, Grade Repetition
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1988
The National Governors' Association's Making America Work initiative had a dual focus. Five task forces spent a year developing action agendas to address five barriers to self-sufficiency and productivity: teenage pregnancy, adult illiteracy, welfare dependency, alcohol and drug abuse, and dropping out of school. The second phase of the initiative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Alcohol Abuse, Dropout Prevention
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
This report evaluates the special education component of the 1986-87 Attendance Improvement/Dropout Prevention program of the New York City Board of Education. The program was designed to provide intensive services to special education students at risk of dropping out of school. The report presents characteristics of students in the program,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavior Problems, Counseling Services
Cramer, Patricia L. – 1982
This study was conducted to determine causes for attrition among students in an Adult Basic Education (A.B.E.) program located in a non-metropolitan area. Dropouts and completers were compared by demographic characteristics and by sources of difficulty (nonschool-related, school-related, and affective) in attending class. In addition, causes for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Demography
Rollason, Wendell N. – 1984
The report presents Redlands Christian Migrant Association's (RCMA's) position on Florida's Migrant Education Program, the program changes sought by RCMA, and background and back-up materials. The packet of materials includes brief discussions of the background and reactivation of the Task Force on Migrant Education; State Board of Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Early Childhood Education
Reynolds, Dorothy F.; Reeves, Joyce K. – 1983
The Peninsula Academies program operates two schools within schools, the electronics academy and the computer academy, in a three-year high school program for disadvantaged students labeled as potential dropouts in San Mateo County, California. A review of the performance of the Peninsula Academies program during its second year of operation…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Glaser, Roberta E.; Kley, Raymond C. – 1982
Ohio's Occupational Work Adjustment (OWA) program is a one- to two-year ungraded vocational program for fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds who have been identified as potential dropouts from the regular educational program. Begun on a pilot basis in 1967, OWA served over 80,000 students in 499 programs during the 1981-82 school year. The goal of OWA,…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Kester, Donald L. – 1980
Methodology and findings are summarized for a three-year research project undertaken by a consortium of 28 Northern California (Nor Cal) community colleges to identify and help the potential dropouts among full-time, entering freshmen. The report first discusses the creation of the Nor-Cal consortium and then examines each of the three research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Freshmen, College Role, Community Colleges
Cabrera, M.; And Others – 1979
An alternative high school is proposed to meet the needs of the substantial number of Yuma students who are dropping out of school at increasing rates. In the period from 1974 to 1978 enrollment at Yuma's 2 high schools increased by only 8% while the drop-out rate increased by 56%. Enrollment figures show that the drop-out rate is highest in grade…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Development, Declining Enrollment, Discipline Problems
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1967
IN ASSISTING EFFORTS TOWARD QUALITY VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE FORD FOUNDATION HAS MADE GRANTS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE VIEW THAT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY AT ALL LEVELS OF SECONDARY AND POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION, AND THAT IMPROVEMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Curriculum Research, Dropout Prevention
A Sheltered Work Experience Centered Vocational Curriculum for Low Achieving Students. Final Report.
Dickson, Elizabeth – 1973
The purpose of the Sylacauga, Alabama, exemplary program, reported for the period from July 1, 1970 to June 30, 1973, was to demonstrate practices found effective for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged and other dropout-prone students. Program objectives were to provide: (1) student counseling services to help appraise interests,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Counseling, Compensatory Education, Developmental Programs
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Planning. – 1971
This is a summary of detailed planning documents for achieving 8 of the 11 1975 objectives adopted by the South Carolina State board of education in 1970. Separate sections discuss plans for reducing the number of school dropouts, reducing the number of first grade failures, implementing a Statewide kindergarten system, improving students' basic…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention
Miles, Guy H.; Henry, William F. – 1974
As part of a study designed to develop youth programs which would maximize social and occupational adjustment of minorities in the rural Southwest, this report contains a detailed description of the general framework and/or tentative guidelines for a Chicano youth program. Also included are operating principles for an American Indian program…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Bilingualism, Cooperative Programs
Gross, John G., Ed. – 1971
A food and nutrition study conducted in six different areas of one state is discussed. The youth phase of the program was designed to provide an educational program for young people from low-income families. Pre-tests and post-tests were prepared and designed to determine the effectiveness of the Tricks for Treats unit in influencing the behavior…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Change Agents, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Greer, Colin – 1972
American schools have been credited with building American democracy. This is a myth which has been largely responsible for the resistance of today's schools to needed change. Exposing this myth are records of several major urban school systems which show the high rate of school failure among the urban poor since before 1900. These statistics have…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Change Agents, Democracy, Democratic Values
