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Kaufman, Phillip; Klein, Steve; Frase, Mary – 1999
This report, 10th in a series, presents data for 1997 on high school dropout rates, and examines high school completion and graduation rates. The report is based on the best and most current national data available, using data from the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census. Data show that about 5 out of every 100 young adults…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Census Figures, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate
Johnson, Charmaine D. – 1999
The Exit Skills Summer Learning Academies of the Detroit Public Schools (Michigan) provided additional instruction to students in kindergarten and grades one and two who did not master specific objectives during the regular school year. A total of 174 schools participated, and 7,675 students received program services. The primary feature of the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1

Bergin, David A.; And Others – Urban Review, 1992
Describes the Hilltop Emergent Literacy Project (HELP) in Toledo (Ohio), an afterschool educational program for poor, mostly African American, students in kindergarten through grade 3, and evaluates its effects on 12 kindergartners in comparison with a control group of 12 kindergartners. Program effectiveness is supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Rosenfeld, Neill S. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1991
Discusses the effects on attendance, graduation rates, and employment prospects of high school academy programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation. These academies give thousands of public high school students foundations for careers through coursework, mentoring, and internships in school-within-a-school supplemental programs focused on…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance

Hingson, Ralph W.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1991
Compares the level of knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission and risk behavior of 1,057 foreign-born and 1,963 U.S.-born high school and middle school students in Boston (Massachusetts). Results suggest that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome education should be taught to immigrant students in their native languages. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Asian Americans, Black Students, Ethnic Groups
Hayes, Diane Williams – Crisis, 1993
Explores violence and weapon use among high school students. Both are on the increase. Schools have a responsibility to stop the overflow of street crime into the schools, but they cannot accomplish this without the help of parents. Parents must learn how to teach their children alternatives to violence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education

Helm, Virginia M. – Education and Urban Society, 1993
Considers barriers to education faced by homeless children. Compares the development of the rights to education of homeless children and youth to the development of rights of the handicapped. Access to education is only the first step. Services must be provided to enable success to come from access. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Children, Civil Liberties

Reyes, Olga; Jason, Leonard A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1993
Studied characteristics distinguishing successful and failing Hispanic innercity high school students, using 24 high dropout-risk and 24 low dropout-risk Hispanic tenth graders (22 males and 26 females). When compared to high-risk counterparts, low-risk students were more satisfied with their school and maintained social groups predominantly free…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Grade 10, High Risk Students

Schmitz, Stephen – Journal of Education, 1992
Demonstrates how several factors interact to diminish the chances of academic success for the children of public housing, and suggests how these chances might be improved. A first step is renewed commitment to housing conditions. Reduction of class size is a strong option for increasing achievement for children. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Affirmative Action, Class Size

Rutter, Robert A.; Margelofsky, Mark – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1997
Using survey and interview data from 78 junior high and high school students in an alternative school, studies the ways school structures affect the experience of at-risk students. Seven dilemmas attributable to familiar school structures are examined, and implications for restructuring schools are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experience, High Risk Students
Tierney, William G., Ed.; Colyar, Julia E., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2006
This book documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examines the different pathways that brought these students to where they are: living in poverty, attending overcrowded schools, and the pressure to be the first in their families to attend college are just a few of the challenges these students must battle…
Descriptors: High School Students, Access to Education, Student Characteristics, Higher Education
Smith, Albert J. – 1997
This executive summary presents evaluation findings and conclusions from a 4-year study of a demonstration project focusing on a school-based and school-linked interprofessional case management approach to dropout prevention. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was administered by the Center for the Study and Teaching of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavior Problems, Demonstration Programs
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This report presents an evaluation of a two-way bilingual program in English and Spanish at the Cunningham Elementary School (Texas). The program was designed to extend and expand educational reform by shifting the instructional program at the school over the 5-year time span from a transitional bilingual program to a two-way bilingual, or dual…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Planning, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; Haslam, M. Bruce – 1992
This publication, part of a series initiated in 1986, describes effective educational practices of schools that serve disadvantaged students and adds information on recent research about the characteristics of these schools to support the review. Following an introduction, four types of attributes are examined in four sections. Section 1 considers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Design, Disadvantaged Youth
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1991
The New Horizons Program provides supportive services such as counseling, attendance monitoring, career-related instruction, and work experience to dropout-prone students and their families in order to improve students' academic achievement and increase their graduation rate. Work experience, a major component of the program, helps students focus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Career Education, Dropout Prevention