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Grier, Terry B.; Peterson, Kent D. – Principal Leadership, 2007
In 2000, 6% of students in the Guilford County Schools (Greensboro, North Carolina) dropped out, and the school board demanded action. After considering a variety of options, the district turned to a small-school concept called the "middle college high school" to help reconnect those students and keep them in school. A middle college…
Descriptors: High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Continuation Students, County School Districts
Grigal, Meg; Dwyre, Amy; Davis, Helena – National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET), University of Minnesota, 2006
In response to recent calls in the field of special education for the development and expansion of services for older students with intellectual disabilities, local school systems nationwide have begun to provide transition services to students ages 18 and older with intellectual disabilities in postsecondary settings such as two- and four-year…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Late Adolescents
Gordon, Elizabeth; And Others – 1986
This report focuses on the transition situation of mentally retarded (MR) youth in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The county is served by two Intermediate Units: IU2 (1170 MR students) serves the Pittsburgh School System and emphasizes mainstreaming, with the mildly handicapped attending neighborhood schools and severely handicapped attending a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, County School Districts, Education Work Relationship, Mainstreaming