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Greene, Brenda Z. – Updating School Board Policies, 1984
The theme article of this issue, "Addressing Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood" by Brenda Greene, explains that pregnant students and those who are already parents have the same legal rights to public education as do all other students. To meet this responsibility and to lower dropout rates, schools need to make educational opportunities available…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Dismissal (Personnel), Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Peck, Nancy L.; Eberhard, Raymond G. – The Practitioner, 1988
Dropout prevention is emerging as the most important new issue in education. Broad demographic trends predict a continuing growth in the population of at-risk youth, those most likely to drop out of school. The overall goal of any dropout prevention activity is to reduce the number of at-risk students. This issue is devoted to what research and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Change Strategies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
