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Direct linkPrice, Hugh B. – Brookings Institution, 2007
This working paper examines the approaches, wisdom, and experience generated by the ChalleNGe program, as well as the vast storehouse of knowledge and research, models and systems possessed by the military services that are potentially applicable to educating and developing youngsters who are at greatest risk of academic failure, economic…
Descriptors: Military Service, High Risk Students, Military Schools, Military Training
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2005
College-based programs that motivate underachieving teenagers to graduate and pursue further education is part of a menu of initiatives Guilford County, North Carolina, has introduced to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of students in its middle and high schools, where racial and ethnic diversity and poverty have been on the rise. As…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Public Schools, Educational Innovation, High Schools
Peer reviewedMcFadden, Mark G. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1996
Reports on an ethnographic project examining an Australian program designed to provide homeless adolescents with access to secondary education. Focuses on the relationships among groups of students within the program and explores the way that education can either reinforce disadvantage or offer access to opportunity. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Disadvantaged Environment, Dropouts
Download full textSchirm, Allen; Stuart, Elizabeth; McKie, Allison – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2006
From July 1995 through September 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Ford Foundation (Ford) operated a demonstration of the Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP). QOP offered intensive and comprehensive services to help at-risk youth graduate from high school and enroll in postsecondary education or training. QOP was mainly an…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High Risk Students, High Schools, Telephone Surveys
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
