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Last Chance Gulch: Youth Participation in Urban Adult Basic Education Programs

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Perin, Dolores; Flugman, Bert; Spiegel, Seymour – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2006

In a case study of four urban adult basic education programs in a northeastern state, large increases in the participation of 16- to 20-year-old students were found. Many of these students were reading below the fifth-grade level despite aspiring to the General Education Development (GED) diploma. Reasons for youth participation included increased…

Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropouts, Dropout Research, Dropout Programs

Process Evaluation in Dropout Prevention Programs: Detecting and Predicting Problems and Benefits through the Use of Problem Survey.

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Southard, Margarida F. – 1990

Results of a process evaluation of dropout prevention programs in the Leon County (Florida) school district during the school year 1989-90 are presented. Altogether, 11 dropout programs were operationalized in that school year. The methodology used for developing a problem survey among teachers and administrators, the results of the evaluation,…

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs

Process Evaluation in Dropout Prevention Programs. Detecting and Predicting Problems and Benefits through the Use of Problem Benefit/Survey.

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Southard, Margarida F. – 1991

Results of a process evaluation of dropout prevention programs in the Leon County (Florida) School District during the school year 1989-90 are presented. Altogether, 11 dropout programs were operationalized in that school year. The methodology used for developing a problem and benefit survey among teachers and administrators, the results of the…

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrators, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs