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Download full textNava, Paul; Hernandez, Lourdes; Rubalcava, Anna; Palacios, Esther C. – 1995
The Region XI Migrant Education Program, Pajaro Valley Unified School District (Watsonville, CA) serves approximately 6,300 students during the regular school year and 4,400 students during the summer. Virtually all students are Hispanics, and 47 percent are currently migrant. As a group, these students have at least three characteristics that put…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College Preparation, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Guardiola, Gloria – 1983
Established in 1970 and operated by the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, the George I. Sanchez Junior Senior High School (Houston, Texas) is an alternative school for Hispanics in grades 7-12. The school, staffed originally by volunteers, acquired a full-time executive director in 1973, established relations whith the Houston…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Dixon, Donald A. – 1992
This paper presents an analysis of a California state mandated effort to reduce dropout rates. In particular, the analysis looks at which program components and strategies are successful in increasing school holding power and what organizational and administrative factors are linked to the decision to actually implement the program as designed.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Coordinators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Phillimore, Peter; Ahmad, Yusuf I. – 1980
This paper describes a course of study offered by Bradford College in West Yorkshire, Great Britain, to twenty 16-19 year old students of Asian background who left school alienated from education as a process and school as an institution. The program offers English, prevocational, and vocational courses with the goal of improving the students'…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Phelps, Margaret S.; And Others – 1994
This paper describes a K-12 intervention program for educationally at-risk youth in Jackson County, Tennessee. The LEarning VISIONS (LV) program involves teachers, administrators, parents, business leaders, and higher-education personnel in an effort to integrate a variety of long-term intervention strategies while respecting the rural context and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Attendance, Counseling Services, County Programs
Cox, J. Lamarr; Spivey, Rita – 1986
This report describes methodology and results of a study to determine the nature and extent of the high school dropout problem in the Appalachian region and to explore characteristics of existing programs dealing with dropout problems in the region. Data aggregation complicated by lack of standardization in reporting numbers of dropouts and…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Southard, Margarida F. – 1991
In the 1989-90 school year, 13 dropout prevention programs were implemented in the Leon County (Florida) School District. The Comprehensive Dropout Prevention Program (CDPP) for Leon County schools included Educational Alternatives Programs, a Teenage Parent Program, a Substance Abuse Program, and Youth Services Programs. This report presents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
City Univ. of New York, NY. City Coll. – 1988
The second annual Staying-in-School-Partnership Program (SSPP) conference, "Successful Schooling for the At-Risk Student: Ideas for Practitioners," brought representatives from the ten SSPP programs together with representatives from New York State and New York City Attendance Improvement/Dropout Prevention (AIDP) programs, the New York…
Descriptors: Attendance, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention
