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Hahn, Andrew – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Although successful dropout assistance programs depend on effective implementation, casework, and long-term followup activities, the literature only occasionally addresses these practices. This article reviews data collection problems, major risk factors, reforms aimed at actual and potential dropouts, and alternative school programs. Second…
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Data Collection, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs
Download full textBurac, Zipura T. – 1992
Designed for educational administrators, state-level personnel, program coordinators, teachers, and researchers, this monograph highlights five exemplary vocational programs serving individuals from special populations. Identified through an extensive national search in 1990, each program exemplifies successful practices for secondary and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Curriculum, Demonstration Programs
Robledo, Maria del Refugio – 1990
This handbook provides information about an innovative model, Partners for Valued Youth (PVY), that encourages "at-risk" students to stay in school and to set broader goals for themselves through a cross-age tutoring experience in which at-risk middle school students tutor younger, elementary school students. After a preface, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education
Gowen, Doris – 1982
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of group counseling using structured activities on the self-concept of disadvantaged postsecondary students enrolled in vocational-technical schools. Volunteers meeting Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) definitions of…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Disadvantaged, Displaced Homemakers
Sipe, Cynthia L.; And Others – 1988
The Summer Training and Education Program (STEP) was developed in 1984 as a strategy for reducing the number of young people who leave school without the skills and motivation necessary for productive employment. The STEP intervention involves collaboration between the public schools and the federal Summer Youth Employment and Training Program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Demography
