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Download full textBuckner, Madeline P. – 1976
The Chicago public schools have implemented two dropout prevention programs in five high schools. The Early Action Opportunity Centers program gives priority to identified potential dropouts who have records of entanglement with law enforcement agencies. Fifty percent of the students in the Chicago Receptions Center program are returnees from…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Dropout Prevention
Nava, 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
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
Gayeff, Yvonne M. – 1986
Educational equality for migrant youth has not been realized in American society. By grade 10, 80-90% of migrant youth drop out of school. When migrants drop out, they are academically 1 to 2 years behind other students their age. They have limited English skills, poor self-concepts, few job skills, and no career plans. The National Association of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Guidance, Disadvantaged, Dropout Prevention
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
Clark, Terry A. – 1987
This paper discusses the potential of school district-based and community-wide approaches to dropout prevention, and provides a summary of the goals and expected outcomes of the Consortium on Dropout Prevention, and the Urban Dropout Prevention Collaboratives Program. The Consortium on Dropout Prevention was formed to cooperatively gather and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
