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Download full textBrown, James M., Ed. – 1989
This document reports on a national symposium that constituted the first phase of a research study designed to determine how to use intrinsic motivation and self-empowerment concepts to retain special needs learners who are potential dropouts in postsecondary vocational education programs. The first chapter (by Brown and Wotruba) contains the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Disabilities, Dropout Research, Empowerment
Mann, Dale – 1985
The conference summarized here brought together participants from 12 public school districts and 34 observers from government agencies, foundations and community organizations. The attendees addressed the concern that the reform agenda of American public schooling is insufficiently sensitive to needy children who have dropped out of school or who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Characteristics
