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Putting and Keeping Students on Track: Toward a Comprehensive Model of College Persistence and Goal Attainment. Research Report. ETS RR-13-14
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Burrus, Jeremy; Elliott, Diane; Brenneman, Meghan; Markle, Ross; Carney, Lauren; Moore, Gabrielle; Betancourt, Anthony; Jackson, Teresa; Robbins, Steve; Kyllonen, Patrick; Roberts, Richard D. – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
Despite near universal acceptance in the value of higher education for individuals and society, college persistence rates in 4-year and community colleges are low. Only 57% of students who began college at a 4-year institution in 2001 had completed a bachelor's degree by 2007, and only 28% of community college students who started school in 2005…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Literature Reviews, Models
The Effects of Alternative School Programs on High School Completion and Labor Market Outcomes.
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Catterall, James S.; Stern, David – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
This research probes two questions: Does participation in alternative high school programs reduce the likelihood of students dropping out? Does participation enhance experience in the labor market after students leave school? Results showed lower dropout and higher subsequent employment rates among participants who had no doubt about finishing the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Continuation Students, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
America's Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor's Degree
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Nemko, Marty – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This author reports that, among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later. While four-year colleges admit and take money from hundreds of thousands of such students each year, the students who…
Descriptors: Universities, Colleges, Dropouts, Student Recruitment
School-Supervised Work Education Programs: Curriculum Report, Volume 3, Number 2.
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National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1973
The report represents an abridged summary of a study which assessed secondary and postsecondary work education programs and suggested ways they might be modified or expanded. A stratified, random sample of 50 work-education sites was drawn for the study from a set of 500 representative programs. Specific occupational training, dropout prevention,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation Funds Model Schools.
Thielman, Jeff – Momentum, 2002
Describes an educational foundation that offers financial support to those wishing to institute a San Miguel/Nativity or Cristo Rey model school. Reports that these schools must strive to reduce dropout rates, increase number of students prepared for college, and increase number of students receiving Catholic education. (NB)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Demonstration Programs
The City Is Our Classroom.
Monaco, Fred A. – VocEd, 1979
Pittsburgh Public Schools' student placement coordinator describes their program to help secondary students and school leavers with cooperative, part-time, and later full-time job placement, using behavior modification and cooperative education. Includes program organization, use of paraprofessionals, funding, and the importance of employer…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning, Delinquency Prevention