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.…

Continuation schools were developed to enable students to continue earning a high school diploma while they worked, often full time, to support themselves and their families. Traditionally, continuation schools were home to poor teachers, narrowed curriculum and an unwelcoming culture. Intuitively, students attending today's continuation schools…

The aim of the project was to demonstrate a deliberate effort to reach illegitimately pregnant teenage girls, using the period before and after birth to help the girl achieve a future pattern of behavior that would meet her needs constructively. The period before the birth of the baby was used to reduce immediate life pressures, to provide a…

The Continuation Education System Development Project technical report of appendix tables includes: (1) a bibliography; (2) letters to schools; (3) the initial in-service training program of Valley staff; (4) data of a teacher evaluation survey; (5) instructional preference scale data; (6) meaning of words inventory data; (7) a physical profile;…

Over a four year period, the Continuation Education System Development Project will develop a practical instructional system capable of continuous identification and efficient response to the critical instructional needs of individual continuation high school students, or those who drop out or are pushed out, in La Puente, California. The first…

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)

Defines and discusses recurrent education, which is interpreted as education for people who are in the world of work or in a period of unemployment, who have leisure time or are retired, and who return at intervals to organized learning. Topics discussed include motivation, tracks, principles, and objectives of recurrent education. (Author/DB)

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)

The ADAPT Supplementary Educational Center is a Title III Elementary and Secondary Education Act PACE Center funded for the purpose of encouraging educational change and encouraging relevant activities in the educational programs in its service area. During 1967-68, one of the activities in the ADAPT application called for "four conferences for…

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)

Examined structural relationships among risk and protective factors in a sample of 646 continuation (high risk) high school students. Findings show that depression is common among high risk adolescents, and it has numerous negative associated features and consequences. (SLD)

Compared 103 students on global self-esteem and perceived life chances. Thirty-three were in a continuation high school, 20 participated in a mentoring program, and 50 were in a program for the academically gifted. The groups did not differ in global self-esteem, but students at the continuation school had lower scores for perceived life chances.…

Students expressed their feelings about the value of art experience at a continuation, alternative high school in a culturally deprived community. (Author/RK)