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Download full textMei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1988
City-as-School (CAS) is an alternative high school linking students to various out-of-school learning experiences throughout New York City. In 1985, the CAS was awarded a National Diffusion Network (NDN) four-year replication grant, given to exemplary programs to enable them to disseminate their model to other interested schools and districts…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High Schools, Management Development, Models
Frankel, Steven M.; And Others – 1973
The purpose of this document is to provide educational researchers and administrators with the material needed to replicate the study, Assessment of School-Supervised Work Education Programs, within a sphere of interest limited geographically, vocationally, or in other functional ways. The procedures used to carry out this study and produce its…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Dropout Prevention, Guides, On the Job Training
Australian Commonwealth Schools Commission, Canberra. – 1984
This report analyzes the Participation and Equity Program's two objectives of reducing significantly the number of Australian students prematurely leaving full-time education and of fostering more equal education, and discusses strategies for achieving these objectives. Following a statement by the Minister of Education and Youth Affairs and an…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Clough, Dick B. – 1991
School reform efforts today have a personal focus that emphasizes attending to the problems faced by individual at-risk students. After outlining the impact of student dropouts, this document uses information from a review of 150 at-risk student programs described in related professional literature to describe six basic weaknesses in current…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dropout Prevention, Early Intervention, Educational Administration
Riddle, Wayne C. – 1989
Chapter 1, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, authorizes federal assistance for state and local programs of education for disadvantaged elementary and secondary school pupils. Its appropriation for fiscal year (FY) 1989 is $4.6 billion. Chapter 1 has been reauthorized and comprehensively revised by the 100th Congress,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention
Brown, Don A., Ed. – 1979
This guide is a resource both for organizing and for managing adult literacy programs. Based on the collective input and refinement of national leaders in adult basic education, the handbook provides coverage of program planning, staff development, student recruitment and retention, instructional approaches and techniques, instructional materials,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Brown, Willis C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary Education, High School Students
