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Loomis, Corey Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Comprehensive high schools have been unable to meet the needs of all students (Cotton, 2004). Students face challenges, and some have been labeled "at risk" for various reasons. These students constitute a unique group who often require more time, energy, and resources than large, comprehensive schools can offer. Consequently, they fall behind on…
Descriptors: Caring, High Schools, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes
Pollack, Louisa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Schools face the dilemma of transforming both the trend of students dropping out of school and the associated negative socioeconomic outcomes into a positive path of persistence and school completion. Despite ongoing efforts of the federal and state government, as well as those of the local school districts, this problem continues to burden the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Intervention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention