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Anzelone, Caitlin Platania – MDRC, 2023
11 community colleges in New Jersey and two Historically Black Community Colleges (one in Alabama and one in Mississippi) joined the OnPath project, which had the goal to help community college students stay enrolled during the pandemic. OnPath facilitated a powerful combination of people and knowledge by bringing together college staff members…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Black Colleges, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention
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Ansary, Nadia S.; Elias, Maurice J.; Greene, Michael B.; Green, Stuart – Educational Researcher, 2015
This article synthesizes the current research on bullying prevention and intervention in order to provide guidance to schools seeking to select and implement antibullying strategies. Evidence-based best practices that are shared across generally effective antibullying approaches are elucidated, and these strategies are grounded in examples…
Descriptors: Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Prevention
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Kellmayer, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1995
Chronically disruptive students are often funneled into "watered-down" alternative schools that warehouse rather than educate them. The Atlantic County (New Jersey) Alternative High School is a successful college-based program that expects referred students to fulfill normal academic requirements while taking tuition-free college…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, College School Cooperation, High School Students, High Schools
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Keenan, Jennifer; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1992
A project developed to increase public and professional awareness of fragile X syndrome in New Jersey resulted in increased efforts at diagnostic screening, provision of client and family support services, and prevention. The program proved to be a cost-effective method for increasing community awareness of a genetic disease on a statewide level.…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Programs, Congenital Impairments, Cost Effectiveness
Teaneck Board of Education, NJ. – 1983
The Vocational Counseling Project was undertaken to provide secondary-level handicapped students, who were identified as possible dropouts, with vocational counseling and support to facilitate post-high school adjustment. In addition, project staff were supposed to determine the readiness of secondary-level handicapped students for work placement,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Coordination, Disabilities, Dropout Prevention
McCabe, Connie – 1990
This publication presents the evaluation of the Secondary Special Education Initiative, a 5-year partnership between the New Jersey State Department of Education and nine school districts. The initiative was established in 1983 to enhance the development of high-school programs and services for educationally handicapped pupils. The initiative had…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disabilities, Dropout Prevention, Educational Cooperation