The main objective of this review is to answer the following research questions: What are the effects of outreach programmes on problem/high-risk behaviour of young people between 8 and 25 years of age living in OECD countries? Are they less likely to experience an adverse outcome such as school failure or drop-out, runaway and homelessness,…

Reported are aspects of the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Program, notably the extensive follow-up study of the program. Contents focus on the history of the HOPE Program, the summative evaluation of HOPE, the preliminary phase of the follow-up study, the study's main phase, measurement procedures used, and the third, fourth, and final…

Following a brief discussion of the development of the "South Carolina Educational Objectives for 1975," needs assessment data are provided. These data provide the criteria, status measure, and discrepancy related to School Dropouts, Instruction in Basic Skills, Program for the Handicapped, State-Wide Kindergarten, First Grade Failures,…