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Jada Javonne Waters – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study focused on young women's perceptions of the factors that influenced their lack of success in traditional high school settings and the factors that led them to enroll and complete the alternative program, Gateway to College. The Gateway to College program is a coeducational program, but this study l focused solely on young women who…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Females, Student Participation, Student Experience
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Carver, Priscilla Rouse; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report provides national estimates about dropout prevention services and programs in public school districts. The estimates presented in this report are based on a district survey about dropout prevention services and programs offered by the district or by any of the schools in the district during the 2010-11 school year. For this survey,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, School Districts
Marsh, Shannon – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Concerned about the persistently high dropout rates from big-city secondary schools, education leaders are trying a new approach to increasing the graduation rate--multiple pathways to graduation. Multiple pathways initiatives are relatively new and far from proven. Even the most advanced examples face significant issues, i.e., the need to…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
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Dynarski, Mark; Clarke, Linda; Cobb, Brian; Finn, Jeremy; Rumberger, Russell; Smink, Jay – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This guide is intended to be useful to educators in high schools and middle schools, to superintendents and school boards, and to state policymakers in planning and executing dropout prevention strategies. The target audience includes school administrators as well as district-level administrators, seeking to help develop practice and policy…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Validity
Foley, Eileen; Oxley, Diana – 1986
The State-funded Attendance Improvement/Dropout Prevention program and the City-funded Dropout Prevention Program distributed over $30 million to the New York City Board of Education in 1985-86. This document is a summary report of an analysis of program implementation in the schools receiving these funds aimed at better understanding of political…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Thomas, Terry, Ed.; And Others – 1985
This resource handbook was developed to provide constituent school district personnel with a variety of strategies for improving student attendance and for reducing the dropout rate. A significant number of studies completed during the last 5 years have identified attendance as the critical issue confronting school administrators. Further, recent…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Thomas, Terry, Ed.; Sykes, Roger, Ed. – 1986
To furnish constituent school district personnel with a number of alternative educational programs for reducing the dropout rate, this resource handbook was published by the Oakland Schools (Michigan) Department of Pupil Personnel Services. Provided within this second handbook discussing various strategies for improving student attendance and for…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
State Univ. of New York, Oneonta. Coll. at Oneonta. – 1985
Responses to a survey questionnaire completed by 1,070 migrant students who returned to school after dropping out were tabulated and listed by response frequency to determine student characteristics that will help migrant educators predict dropout behavior and address its causes. Participating students were enrolled in 13 High School Equivalency…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Continuation Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs
Boyd, Sheila; Regner, Christine – 1987
The Eidos Program, sponsored by the Idyllic Foundation, is a private community-based organization that, with schools and other cooperating agencies and sponsors, helps young people whose needs are not adequately met by existing instituions. The program, which was funded for six months by the Job Training Partnership Act, provided educational and…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
This second interim report presents evaluation results from Project Youth Experiencing Success (YES) and documents a decrease in the Virginia statewide event-dropout rate in grades 7 through 12 from 4.8 percent during the 1988-89 school year to 3.3 percent during the 1991-92 year. Event-dropout rates measure the proportion of students who drop out…
Descriptors: Ability, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, College School Cooperation