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Direct linkSmyth, John; McInerney, Peter – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
This paper examines the complex constellation of conditions that turn many young people into "exiles" from schooling. From the vantage point of young people, the paper traces out a profile of the conditions that need to be brought into existence for these young people to find a way back into learning. The paper argues that current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Quality of Life, Neoliberalism
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
Download full textEdSource, 2008
More than 10% of California's public high school students attend some kind of alternative program. This brief summarizes the initial research study from the California Alternative Education Research Project, which examines continuation schools specifically. It summarizes "Alternative Education Options: A Descriptive Study of California…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Research Projects
Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Fong, Anthony B.; Shirk, Paul B. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2008
This study follows a cohort of first-time 9th graders in San Bernardino City Unified School District from 2001/01 to 2005/06 and documents their dropout, reenrollment, and graduation rates. For the one-third of dropouts who reenrolled in the district over that period, it reports course credit accrual and graduation outcomes as well as students'…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Dropouts, Grade 9
Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Fong, Anthony B.; Shirk, Paul B. – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2009
This study follows a cohort of first-time ninth graders over five years in San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) to describe the magnitude of its dropout problem and the numbers, characteristics, and graduation outcomes of the dropouts who subsequently reenrolled in the district. Additionally, it documents reenrollment issues…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Second Language Learning, Credits
Weber, Edward J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1972
The accomplishments of continuation high schools" in California. (Author/RA)
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Change
Knoeppel, Janet W. – J Secondary Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Continuation Education, Continuation Students, Dropouts, Educational Counseling
Peer reviewedDesmoulin-Kherat, Sharon; Dugger, Chester W. – Middle School Journal, 1996
Describes a program for helping middle school dropouts to enter high school. Details the process for assessing program need; recaps efforts to include younger dropouts in a program; and reports success in determining a solution to the problem of overage students in middle school. Lists 13 program strengths and four criteria for gauging success.…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Middle School Students
Peer reviewedBorus, Michael E.; Carpenter, Susan A. – Youth and Society, 1983
The likelihood of returning to school among high school dropouts was found to be influenced more by the individual's characteristics than by school related factors. Those who were older, married, had lower educational aspirations, and lived in counties with lower school expenditures were less likely to resume their schooling. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, High Schools
Anderson, Jean P. – C.S.P.A.A. Bulletin, 1976
Describes journalism class of talented high school dropouts, aged 16 to 35, who had no journalism background but wanted to publish an offset-printed high school newspaper. (JM)
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Continuation Education, Continuation Students, Dropouts
McCatty, Cressy A. M.; Virgin, Albert E. – Canadian Counsellor, 1978
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent and some of the characteristics of learning by high school drop-outs. Subjects were 70 men and 71 women who were resident in the Borough of North York. (Author)
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Research
Botts, Robert E. – 1968
A continuation school is a guidance and counseling-oriented institution which concerns itself with the motivation of unmotivated students, while also providing a highly academic program for selected students. The study discussed here, focuses on two approaches being tried with students who cannot succeed in regular school programs: (1) the…
Descriptors: Continuation Education, Continuation Students, Dropouts, Low Achievement
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1987
This document contains a collection of essays written by students in General Educational Development (GED) programs. The students had dropped out of high school and are now seeking an equivalency diploma. In the essays, students discuss why they quit school, how well they did in school, what they learned there, and whether it was difficult for…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuation Students, Dropout Attitudes, Dropouts
Placer Union High School District, Auburn, CA. – 1978
Chana High School, a continuation high school in California which provides an alternative approach to education for students unable and/or unwilling to find success in conventional schools is evaluated. The school offers a flexible and personalized instruction approach in an octamester schedule: the school year is divided into seven parts with a…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Curriculum, Disabilities, Dropouts
Walters, Nancy R. – 1969
The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics which describe high school dropouts. The investigation attempted to identify variables which would assist in differentiating persisters and withdrawals at Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri and in predicting dropouts at East High School on the basis of variable weightings drawn…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
