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Kowalski, Cash – 1977
The essential subject matter of this book is the college dropout problem. In a study of persisting and nonpersisting students, home and college environments were considered as well as personal and academic characteristics to determine if any of these areas were related significantly to the student's decision to leave or remain in college. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Download full textLevitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1988
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was heralded as a major overhaul of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program. Five years after passage of JTPA, the answer to the question of whether it has indeed managed to remedy CETA's shortcomings appears to be an unequivocal maybe. Although the JTPA has been praised by numerous…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged
le Roux, Willemien – 2002
This report details findings of a study undertaken during 1993-1995 in the Ghanzi District of Botswana to ascertain the progress of the San children in primary school, comparing children who attended preschool to those who did not. The report also describes the Bokamoso Preschool Programme, started in 1986. Data for the study were collected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Corporal Punishment, Culturally Relevant Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1995
This report, the third in UNESCO's series of World Education Reports, focuses on the largest single category of persons denied equality of educational opportunity in the world today: women and girls. The report examines global trends and developments in female access to formal education in both industrial and developing countries, focusing in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Dropout Rate
Walter, John P.; And Others – 1975
This book analyzes in detail the various economic and socioeconomic factors that affect deprived urban youth in five cultures. Various possible hypotheses and variables that influence youth to enroll in school, participate in the labor force, or remain inactive are measured. Among the selected variables that are examined are: enrollment aspects;…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
van Wieringen, Fons, Ed.; Attwell, Graham, Ed. – 1999
This book contains 25 papers on vocational and adult education in Europe and the United States. The following papers are included: "Vocational and Adult Education in Europe: Introduction to the Volume" (Fons van Wieringen, Graham Attwell); "Introduction to Section 1: Markets and Institutions in Vocational and Adult Education"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Apprenticeships
