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Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Needs Assessment and Planning. – 1995
As part of its dropout prevention efforts, the state of Florida offers currently enrolled high school students the opportunity to earn a General Educational Development (GED) certificate. This new graduation option for at-risk students makes frequent use of computer-assisted instruction, operates a counseling component, integrates vocational…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Haenn, Joseph F. – 1997
The Durham Public Schools Communities in Schools (CIS) Academy provides a student-centered environment that encourages high-risk students to remain in school and get back on track for graduation. Program operations began in January 1995. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the first semester of operations (the second semester of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Salas, Gumecindo; Carl, Bradley – 1997
The Academy of Casa Maria is a charter school for grades 6-8 located in southwest Detroit, Michigan. The school was established in fall 1994 to serve local youth most at risk for low academic achievement, behavioral problems, and dropping out of school. This paper describes the planning and development process and the attitudes of parents and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1991
This report assesses the societal costs of substance abuse--especially cocaine and crack addition--and dropping out of school. It is organized around three themes: (1) the impact of cocaine and crack abuse in terms of crime, public spending, and lost productivity; (2) policies that move addicts away from crack; and (3) policies that reduce the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cocaine, Costs, Crack
McKee, Neena; Crawford, Georgette – 1991
The Operation Rescue project was designed to develop a classroom setting for the delivery of comprehensive educational services to "at risk" young adolescents. The classroom was established as part of the pre-existing Jonesboro Alternative School, and it utilized the basic academic and social program developed by this entity over 12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Family Problems, High Risk Students
Conant, Larry – 1992
Because at-risk students may feel alienated from school, educational reforms may be useful that make school a more supportive place. While many students identified as "at-risk" may drop out of high school, many others could be better described as "pushouts." These students may desire to stay in school and graduate, but feel pressure to leave.…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, High Risk Students, High School Students
Frost, Lynda E. – 1992
The theoretical constructs underlying legislative approaches to at-risk student statutes are examined in this paper, with attention given to the ways in which educational institutions make certain factors significant to student success. Legislative approaches closely follow the epidemiology model, which attempts to identify, predict, and immunize…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection
Stowitschek, Joseph J.; And Others – 1990
This paper describes a data-based screening tool for identifying at-risk students. It is intended to complement referral and other qualitative means of identification. The Computerized Risk Index Screening Program (CRISP) is an application of a commonly available data management program that: (1) provides a school-based screening system; (2) can…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Database Management Systems, Educational Diagnosis
Tecumseh Consortium, Springfield, OH. – 1990
A project identified as potential dropouts 53 Springfield (Ohio) South High School freshmen and 24 London (Ohio) High School juniors and seniors who demonstrated irregular attendance patterns and poor grade achievement. The 53 freshmen and 15 London High School students were enrolled in a career club, an intervention program to address their…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Career Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Baca, Christina C.; And Others – 1989
School Dropouts have less employment and learning potential than graduates, contribute less to the economy, and add to social service costs. To identify a set of predictive dropout characteristics for females by racial/ethnic background and a set of intervention strategies to address those factors, telephone surveys covering 52 items were…
Descriptors: Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Employment Potential
Dawson, Margaret; And Others – 1988
Retention, the practice of requiring a student to repeat a particular grade or of delaying the entry to kindergarden or first grade of a child who is of appropriate chronological age, remains a common educational custom although little research exists to validate its effectiveness. The literature review on retention effects contained within this…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Compensatory Education, Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education
Kalinke, Wilbur F. – 1989
This presentation describes dropout facts and prevention methods based on nationwide interviews with dropout runaways. Potential dropout runaways might be labeled the "distracted ones." They have trouble concentrating in a typical classroom situation as they are distracted by events that happened at home or that might happen after school. Such…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Crohn, Leslie – 1987
This document contains materials from a conference designed to examine policy issues related to potential dropouts, youth offenders, drug and alcohol abusers, teenage parents, young children at risk, unemployed youth, and compensatory education. A brief overview of the 2-day conference is followed by summaries of each of the conference's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Children, Delinquency
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report evaluates the 1985-86 Special Education Attendance Improvement/Dropout Prevention and Dropout Prevention (AIDP/DPP) programs as they operated in 45 New York City sites. City tax-levy DPP funds were allocated during the 1985-86 school year to the Division of Special Education to expand existing state-funded AIDP services for at-risk…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Behavior Problems
Catterall, James S. – 1986
This paper draws on path-like models of student attrition developed by researchers concerned with American higher education to suggest a process model of dropping out of school which is applicable to secondary schools. It notes that existing research on school dropouts has been conducted largely without the guidance of such a model. Central…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Models
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