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Peer reviewedRadhakrishna, Rama B.; Snider, B. Alan – Journal of Extension, 1997
Survey responses from 8,634 seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in Pennsylvania (65%) found that 22% currently smoke; smokers are more likely to dislike school, have lower grades, think it acceptable to sell tobacco to minors, and be likely to smoke as adults; and nonsmokers were more likely to plan on college and believe second-hand smoke is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Extension Education, Prevention, Smoking
Kressly, James C. – Schools in the Middle, 1994
A shooting incident at a rural Pennsylvania junior high school shocked the district into identifying students most prone to violent behavior. Predictors include low self-esteem, asocial behavior, documented family abuse, resistance to counseling, lack of commitment, and depressive or suicidal behavior. Initiating a caring advisory program is the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Guns, Predictor Variables, Prevention
Download full textHruska, Richard A., Comp. – Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Data Services, 2006
Act 49 of 1987 requires the Secretary of Education to provide the General Assembly with an annual report on public school dropouts in Pennsylvania. The purpose of this report is to document the actual number of students who drop out each year and to provide various characteristics about these students. The type of data collected about each dropout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropouts, Secondary Schools, Student Characteristics
Hruska, Richard A., Comp. – Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Data Services, 2005
Act 49 of 1987 requires the Secretary of Education to provide the General Assembly with an annual report on public school dropouts in Pennsylvania. The purpose of this report is to document the actual number of students who drop out each year and to provide various characteristics about these students. The type of data collected about each dropout…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Public Schools
Bobek, Joanne R., Comp. – Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Data Services, 2007
Act 49 of 1987 requires the Secretary of Education to provide the General Assembly with an annual report on public school dropouts in Pennsylvania. The purpose of this report is to document the actual number of students who drop out each year and to provide various characteristics about these students. The type of data collected about each dropout…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Dropout Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Advisory Services. – 1984
Although the level of funding for adult education programs in Pennsylvania was reduced from 1982-83 to 1983-84, progress was made in increasing the availability of adult basic education (ABE) programs throughout the State and in decreasing the overall rate of premature separations of students from ABE programs. Total hours of service to ABE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Compensation (Remuneration)
