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Download full textBerkins, Cynthia Lawry; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2007
Over the last decade, between 347,000 and 544,000 10th- through 12th-grade students left school each year without successfully completing a high school program Status dropout rates represent the proportion of young people ages 16 through 24 who are out of school and who have not earned a high school credential. Status rates are higher than event…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Research, Dropout Programs
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Direct linkFurstenberg, Frank F., Jr.; Neumark, David – Education Economics, 2007
We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting high school graduation, and especially college attendance, using data from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (PELS). We examine the effects of these programs on a set of schooling-related outcomes during and after high school. The PELS data-set…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts, Graduation
Fardig, Diane – 1992
The purpose of this evaluation is to provide formative Information about selected Orange County Public Schools (CPS) dropout prevention and retrieval programs. The following seven alternative learning programs were evaluated: School-Within-a-School; Alternative Resource Elementary Classrooms; The Challenge Center; The Plaza Center; BETA and ACEPT…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Jahnukainen, Markku – 2000
This paper discusses the outcomes of two intervention models designed to prevent students with disabilities from dropping out of school in Finland. The first model, the "Creating Own Career" model, is based on the main ideas of the City as School projects. The model is designed to emphasize young peoples' own motivation,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Continuation Students, Disabilities, Dropout Prevention
Weiler, Jeanne – 1994
Project Return, a dropout recovery program to assist pregnant and parenting teenagers and parents of elementary school children to return to school, was first implemented in 1989-90, and by 1993-94 had expanded to serve 19 sites in New York City. The Babygram Hospital Outreach program, an outgrowth of Project Return, operated in 12 hospitals and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Counseling, Dropout Prevention
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1992
Project Return, a dropout recovery program to assist pregnant and parenting teenagers and parents of elementary school children to return to school, was first implemented in 1989-90. By 1991-92, there were two components of Project Return: its community education initiative in seven elementary schools, and the Babygram Hospital Outreach Program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Counseling, Dropout Prevention
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Thessaloniki (Greece). – 2003
This document contains the agenda and papers presented at the Agora IX meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece in June 2000 on alternative education and training processes. The papers are "Integration of Migrant Pupils in the Danish Education System" (Bang); "Support Services for Inclusive Education" (De Vroey); "Single Sex…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Continuation Students, Disadvantaged, Dropout Prevention
