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Stern, David; Dayton, Charles; Raby, Marilyn – Career Academy Support Network, 2010
Career academies, after more than four decades of development and three decades of evaluation, have been found by a conclusive random assignment study to be effective in improving outcomes for students during and after high school. Career academies have therefore become the most durable and best-tested component of a high school reform strategy to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Career Academies, College Preparation, Program Effectiveness
Stern, David; And Others – 1986
This report on the high proportion (25 percent) of California high school students who drop out is divided into five major sections. The first discusses the historical shifts in reform efforts to address, alternately, "relevance" and "excellence." It finds that high school students are now more bored and apathetic than…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
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Stern, David; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1989
Results from an evaluation of 11 academy programs in California high schools designed to reduce dropout rates in the state are reported for 1987-88. Results of the matched comparison study were generally positive, and the estimated net economic benefit from dropout prevention for 327 students was 1 to 1.3 million dollars. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Stern, David – 1986
The costly supplemental or alternative programs that combat chronic school failure and continued high dropout rates are not always effective for the following reasons: (1) students do not always find out which programs are available, and (2) if no suitable program is available, there is usually no one responsible for trying to create one. People…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education
Stern, David; And Others – 1986
Eleventh- and twelfth-grade students in California comprehensive high schools and Regional Occupational Centers/Programs spend about one million hours a day on vocational education. California students who took a concentrated sequence of high school vocational subjects during 1981 had a 26 percent unemployment rate in the spring of 1982, compared…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Dropout Prevention, Educational Needs, Educational Philosophy
Stern, David; Dayton, Charles; Raby, Marilyn – 2000
After more than three decades of development and two decades of evaluation, career academies have been found to be effective in improving the performance of students in high school, particularly for students at greatest risk. Career academies have become the most durable and best-tested component of a high school reform strategy that includes…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Education, Articulation (Education), At Risk Persons