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Davis, Marcia H. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2023
U.S. Department of Education research indicates that early warning indicator systems are being used in at least half of high schools in the United States. Previous findings from an efficacy study of one early warning indicator and response system, the Early Warning Indicator (EWI) team model, indicated that ninth grade students in schools using…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9, Dropout Prevention
Stephanie A. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this program evaluation was to evaluate the impact of CORE District's Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC) Program at an urban Title I high school located in Southern California. BTSC aims to improve the ninth-grade experience through a focus on five key change drivers and the implementation of improvement science. Through teacher…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, High Schools
Paul G. Vallas – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2024
Students who have dropped out of high school--and those at risk of doing so--are at greater risk of lifelong poverty, involvement with the criminal justice system, dependence on government welfare programs, and even premature death. In the last few years, however, the problems at high schools have compounded, as pandemic-era school closures led to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Work Study Programs, At Risk Students, Dropouts
Markham, Lauren – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
Oakland International High School, winner of the 2017 National Community School Award, supports its recently arrived immigrant students by integrating academic, social, mental health, and material supports into the school day and beyond. Its community school model incorporates a Wellness Center, a tiered system of support and engagement, external…
Descriptors: High Schools, Immigrants, Holistic Approach, Community Schools
Cline, Vicky Callison – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study used non-experimental survey research to gather data on the kinds of dropout prevention programs in place in West Virginia high schools in 2014-15 and to evaluate their effectiveness based on possible relationships between principals' perceptions of the programs and graduation rates. The study focused on nine of 15 effective strategies…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Principals
Boyd, Carly Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Alternative schools are vital spaces for students who are not successful in traditional schools. The knowledge of social and emotional learning (SEL) and the impact it has on students who attend alternative schools specifically is limited. The problem addressed by this study was the lack of success that explicit SEL programs have in meeting the…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Social Emotional Learning, Program Effectiveness, High School Students
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Venegas-Muggli, Juan I.; Muñoz-Gajardo, Karla A.; González-Clares, María José – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
We evaluated the impact of 2 developmental programs aimed at improving the academic achievements of students in a Chilean higher education institution. Both evaluations had quasi-experimental designs. The impact of counseling programs on students' dropout rates was first evaluated using propensity score matching. Then the impact of mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Students
Edmunds, Julie A.; Dudley, William N.; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Arshavsky, Nina; Lewis, Karla – Grantee Submission, 2019
The STEM Early College Expansion Project is an effort to integrate STEM strategies with the early college model and implement this in comprehensive high schools. This report summarizes findings from two separate quasi-experimental impact studies of the model in Michigan and Connecticut. Results from Michigan showed statistically significant…
Descriptors: High Schools, STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
Somers, Marie-Andrée; Haider, Zeest – MDRC, 2017
The Communities In Schools (CIS) Model of Integrated Student Supports aims to reduce dropout rates by providing students with integrated and tiered support services based on their levels of need. The model includes preventive services that are available to all students (Level 1 services) as well as intensive, targeted, and sustained services…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Student Needs, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Somers, Marie-Andrée; Haider, Zeest – MDRC, 2017
The Communities In Schools (CIS) Model of Integrated Student Supports aims to reduce dropout rates by providing students with integrated and tiered support services based on their levels of need. The model includes preventive services that are available to all students (Level 1 services) as well as intensive, targeted, and sustained services…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Student Needs, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2017
In 2014-15, the high school graduation rate reached a record high of 83 percent (U.S. Department of Education 2016). Despite the gains, over half a million students still drop out of high school each year (U.S. Department of Education 2015). High schools have adopted various strategies designed to keep students who are at risk of not graduating in…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Students, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students
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Freeman, Jennifer; Simonsen, Brandi – Review of Educational Research, 2015
The purpose of this literature review is to systematically examine policy and practice intervention research and assess the impact of those interventions on high school dropout and school completion rates. This systematic review extends the literature by (a) describing both policy and practice interventions, (b) synthesizing findings from…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2017
In 2014-15, the high school graduation rate reached a record high of 83 percent (U.S. Department of Education 2016). Despite the gains, over half a million students still drop out of high school each year (U.S. Department of Education 2015). High schools have adopted various strategies designed to keep students who are at risk of not graduating in…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, High Schools, High School Students, Dropout Prevention
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Naumenko, Oksana; Henson, Robert; Hutchins, Bryan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Funded by an Investing in Innovation (i3) Validation grant, the Rural Innovative Schools (RIS) Project is the first widespread effort to scale up the early college model by implementing it in comprehensive high schools. This paper will present preliminary findings from the evaluation of this project. The impact study uses a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Innovation, Dual Enrollment, High Schools
Pate, Austin; Lerner, Jennifer Brown; Browning, Andrea – American Youth Policy Forum, 2012
This publication is a series of in-depth case studies to examine how three programs which serve a disconnected youth population are utilizing data as a tool for continuous program improvement and ongoing accountability. The report features the following programs: (1) Roca, an organization in Massachusetts which engages the highest-risk youth in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Youth, Youth Employment
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