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Constant, Louay; Wenger, Jennie W.; Cottrell, Linda; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Chan, Wing Yi – RAND Corporation, 2020
The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program is a residential, quasi-military program for youth ages 16 to 18 who are experiencing difficulty in traditional high school. This report covers the program years 2018-2019 and is the fourth in a series of annual reports that RAND Corporation researchers have issued over the course of a research project…
Descriptors: High School Students, Residential Programs, Military Training, Youth Programs
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2021
Although Oregon has made recent gains in its overall high school graduation rate, 21 percent of public school students entering grade 9 in 2014 did not graduate within four years, by 2018. To improve graduation rates, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 98 in 2016 to fund dropout prevention and college and career readiness initiatives in high…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Identification, Early Intervention, Graduation Rate
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2021
The "First-Year Effects of Early Indicator and Intervention Systems in Oregon" study provides information to the Oregon Department of Education and Oregon districts that are adopting or considering adopting an early indicator and intervention system (EIIS), as well as to other interested state and district education leaders who are…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Identification, Early Intervention, Graduation Rate
Sepanik, Susan; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki Bairstow; Commins, Nicholas – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2021
Although Oregon has made recent gains in its overall high school graduation rate, 21?percent of public school students entering grade?9 in 2014 did not graduate within four years, by 2018. To improve graduation rates, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 98 in 2016 to fund dropout prevention and college and career readiness initiatives in high…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Identification, Early Intervention, Graduation Rate
McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; Rojas-Araúz, Bryan O.; Ortega, Robert; Combs, Darien; Cendejas, Christina; McWhirter, Benedict T. – Journal of Career Development, 2019
This article describes the rationale, development, delivery, and evaluation strategy of a pilot career intervention program for immigrant Latina/o high school students: Advocating for Latina/o Achievement in School. This innovative intervention aims to prevent dropout and to promote academic success and college and career readiness through a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Career Development, Hispanic American Students, High School Students
Nelson, Nancy J.; Smith, Jean Louise M.; Fien, Hank; Crone, Deanne A.; Baker, Scott K.; Kame'enui, Edward J. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2016
The purpose of this article is to describe a multicomponent intervention developed and implemented by a consortium of districts in the Pacific Northwest through a researcher-practitioner partnership and the process used for collaboration. The intervention was designed to increase reading proficiency and school engagement for struggling readers in…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Cooperation, School Districts, Middle Schools
Marsh, Shannon – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Concerned about the persistently high dropout rates from big-city secondary schools, education leaders are trying a new approach to increasing the graduation rate--multiple pathways to graduation. Multiple pathways initiatives are relatively new and far from proven. Even the most advanced examples face significant issues, i.e., the need to…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
Reder, Stephen – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2012
Professor Stephen Reder presented the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning (LSAL) at The Centre's 2011 Fall Institute--IALS: Its Meaning and Impact for Policy and Practice--whose findings had implications far beyond assessment. Based on evidence from the ten-year study of more than a thousand adult high school drop-outs, Dr. Reder challenges many…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Learning
Portland Public Schools: From Data and Decisions to Implementation and Results on Dropout Prevention
Stid, Daniel; O'Neill, Kate; Colby, Susan – Bridgespan Group, 2009
Many school district leaders, high school administrators, and teachers--particularly those in urban areas--have struggled to reduce high school dropout rates but find themselves overwhelmed by the dimensions of the problem. Consider: Research has shown that lack of preparation in elementary and middle school, long before students reach high…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Public Schools, Urban Areas, High Schools
Rigles, Bethany; Ipsen, Catherine; Arnold, Nancy; Seekins, Tom – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2011
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) clients who leave the system prematurely experience worse employment outcomes than clients who stay in services. The authors conducted this study to learn about factors leading to premature exit by rural VR clients. Results will inform survey development for a large longitudinal study on this topic. The authors…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Employment Opportunities, Rural Areas, Dropouts
Oregon Department of Education, 2016
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, Trend Analysis, School Districts
Molina, Frieda; Cheng, Wan-Lae; Hendra, Richard – MDRC, 2008
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project is the most comprehensive effort thus far to ascertain which approaches help welfare recipients and other low-income people stay steadily employed and advance in their jobs. Launched in 1999 and slated to end in 2009, the ERA project encompasses more than a dozen demonstration programs and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Welfare Recipients, Labor Turnover
Roid, Gale H. – 1987
This sourcebook describes methods of dealing with dropouts in Oregon school districts. "At-risk youth" and "dropout" are defined and survey results of 98 percent of superintendents concerning program offerings are summarized. Data suggest that medium-size districts require greatest assistance. Despite increases in single-parent…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Research
Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1999
Surging demand for workers, growing income inequality, and passage of welfare reforms have made work force development one of the United States' key national concerns. Public/Private Ventures has been working with various states to design work force development strategies that seek to address the concerns of many work force development specialists…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Colleges, Community Colleges