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Stoner, Marie C. D.; Rucinski, Katherine B.; Edwards, Jessie K.; Selin, Amanda; Hughes, James P.; Wang, Jing; Agyei, Yaw; Gomez-Olive, F. Xavier; MacPhail, Catherine; Kahn, Kathleen; Pettifor, Audrey – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Prevention of both school dropout and teen pregnancy represent clear public health priorities for South Africa, yet their complex and potentially cyclical relationship has not been fully explored. Objective: To further understand how this relationship operates, we analyzed data from a randomized trial of young women aged 13 to 20 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Pregnancy
Patrick, Megan E.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M. – Youth & Society, 2016
National data from Monitoring the Future were used to examine patterns and predictors of college attendance. Samples of American 12th-grade students from 1977 to 2003 were followed for 7 years (modal ages 18-25; N = 10,020). College attendance and graduation patterns varied considerably over historical time and based on family background.…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Dropouts, Substance Abuse, High School Seniors
Hartwig, Elizabeth Kjellstrand – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
The XY-Zone program is a leadership and peer support program that guides adolescent males as they journey into manhood. This mixed methods study examined the influence of the XY-Zone program on developmental assets and academic markers of males in grades nine through 12 who were identified as youth at risk of dropping out of school. Results…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Peer Influence, Adolescents, Males
Mac Iver, Martha Abele; Balfanz, Robert; Byrnes, Vaughan – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2009
The ambitious goal set by Colorado's governor to address the state's dropout problem is a model for the nation. Helping thousands of young people to receive their high school diplomas instead of leaving school without them is a crucial step in improving the quality of life for all Colorado residents. Accomplishing this goal will require focused…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Adolescents, Graduation, Dropout Prevention
Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Adu-Yeboah, Christine – Comparative Education, 2009
This paper examines the issue of school dropout in six communities in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study focused on 89 children (64 boys and 25 girls) aged 7-16 years, who had dropped out of school. A snowballing sampling method was employed to recruit participants to the study. Two researchers interviewed the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, At Risk Students, Attendance Patterns
Norton, Michael H.; Gold, Eva; Peralta, Renata – Research For Action, 2013
The Stoneleigh Foundation of Philadelphia has historically focused its strategic investments on improving outcomes for youth involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Stoneleigh began its support for youth courts by providing a fellowship award from 2009 to 2011 to public interest lawyer Gregory Volz to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Models, Law Enforcement
Kent, Kristine M.; Pelham, William E.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Sibley, Margaret H.; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Yu, Jihnhee; Gnagy, Elizabeth M.; Biswas, Aparajita; Babinski, Dara E.; Karch, Kathryn M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
This study compared the high school academic experience of adolescents with and without childhood ADHD using data from the Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study (PALS). Participants were 326 males with childhood ADHD and 213 demographically similar males without ADHD who were recruited at the start of the follow-up study. Data were collected yearly…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Zhang, Dalun; Willson, Victor; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Barrett, David; Ju, Song; Wu, Jiun-Yu – Behavioral Disorders, 2010
Truancy remains a persistent concern, with serious consequences for the individual, family, and society, as truancy is often linked to academic failure, disengagement with school, school dropout, and delinquency. This study analyzed large-scale data covering multiple years of cohorts of delinquent youths born between 1981 and 1988. Truancy…
Descriptors: Truancy, Attendance Patterns, Delinquency, At Risk Students
Meeker, Steven D.; Edmonson, Stacey; Fisher, Alice – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
This study attempts to answer the following research question: What are the factors that prevent students from completing high school? The participants in this study included 228 current and recent students from General Educational Development (GED) programs across the state of Texas. In an effort to gain a clearer picture of circumstances faced…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Focus Groups, Graduation, Pregnancy
Edge, Christi – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2009
Student "affiliation," also referred to as "engagement," "involvement," "identification," "connectedness," participation," and "bonding" with the school is linked to student success,and a lack of affiliation is directly connected to students' reasons for dropping out of school. Educational reformers and school leaders are beginning to turn their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Adolescents, Attendance Patterns
Bloom, Dan; And Others – 1991
An analysis of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) program focused on the first 18 months of program operations. The 12 randomly selected research counties contained about two-thirds of the statewide teen population targeted by LEAP. The analysis relied on field research, supplemented by data collected from county human service agencies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Attendance
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009
This 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Brief features highlights of the enhanced, mobile-friendly Data Center; data on the 10 key indicators of child well-being for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and many cities, counties, and school districts; and a summary of this year's essay, which calls for improvements to the nation's ability to design and…
Descriptors: Social Indicators, Children, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
Snyder, Thomas D.; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The 2012 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 48th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information
covering the broad field…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Adult Education
Morris, Joan, Ed.; Bedal, C. B., Ed. – School Guidance Worker, 1982
Contains nine articles focusing on prevention programs and school counseling. Topics addressed include educational alternatives for potential dropouts, childhood depression, suicide, and school vandalism. Describes programs facilitating adolescent development and for the prevention of delinquent behavior. Discusses the counselor's role in failure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance Patterns, Counselor Role, Delinquency Prevention
1995
This program outlines the combined efforts of schools, social service agencies, community agencies, and the juvenile court system to reduce days lost by truancy. Also presented are the services necessary to support long-range remediation of truancy and related risk factors. The program was initiated at an inner-city public school with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attendance, Attendance Patterns
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