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Schargel, Franklin P.; Smink, Jay – 2001
Lowering the student dropout rate in America is one of the most significant challenges facing educators today. This book calls attention to this problem, and offers hope and suggestions on how to resolve it using effective strategies taken from research and personal observations gleaned from successful dropout prevention programs in school…
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Download full textSheffield, Anne, Ed.; Frankel, Bruce, Ed. – 1989
Thirteen teenage editors of "Children's Express" investigated the dropout crisis by talking with teenagers who had quit school, with those who had returned to give it a second chance (back-to-schoolers), and with others who were fighting at all odds to hang in there (hangers-in). Hundreds of youth from five American cities--Newark, Boston, Kansas…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Yankelovich, Daniel – 1974
Based on 3,522 one- to two-hour personal interviews conducted in 1973, this study compares the 1973 views and attitudes of American youth to a survey conducted in the late 1960's. As a result, significant trends are traced through an era filled with events that deeply affected the lives of young people, such as the peak and ending of the Vietnam…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Democratic Values, Dropout Attitudes
Kelly, Deirdre, Ed.; Gaskell, Jane, Ed. – 1996
A new, prevailing wisdom is guiding the thinking of policy makers and policy shapers throughout North America; its watchwords are "global competitiveness" and "economic restructuring." The preoccupation with viewing schooling and its role in society through the single lens of global economic competitiveness closes off other…
Descriptors: Alienation, Critical Theory, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research
Calder, Judith, Ed. – 1993
This book identifies the major new developments in the provision of education and training for adults and examines the ideas, developments, and strategies currently being used in the light of the particular needs of disaffected adult learners. (Disaffection refers to feelings of estrangement, lack of trust, feelings of inadequacy, anger, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Ostman, Ronald E.; And Others – 1988
The New Zealand Technical Correspondence Institute studied the internal and external factors influencing adult students enrolled in a tertiary-level distance education management course to abandon their studies. A literature review afforded definitions of: (1) distance education; (2) educational technology; and (3) drop out. Although research has…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Curriculum Development
Britton, Liz; Chatrik, Balbir; Coles, Bob; Craig, Gary; Hylton, Carl; Mumtaz, Saira – 2002
An evaluation addressed how existing services in England, especially the ConneXions career guidance service, reach or overlook groups of young people at the margins--those from minority ethnic groups who experience social exclusion and disaffection. Material from 2 sets of indepth interviews with 64 young people (most 16 and 17 years old) in 2…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alienation, At Risk Persons, Blacks
