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St. Louis Job Corps Peer Mentor and Peer Mediation "Students Helping Students" Program
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Tindall, Judith A.; Chatman, Herbert; Foster, Robin – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2010
Peer Resources is at the heart of positive youth development. Trained youth serving in roles such as mentor, tutor, mediator, leader, and educator can change the norms of a school and community. Utilizing people as resources is an important concept to embrace. During the last seven years, peer mentors have reduced the drop-out rate of 16- and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Mediation, Peer Counseling, Peer Groups
Demilitarizing What the Pentagon Knows about Developing Young People: A New Paradigm for Educating Students who are Struggling in School and in Life. CCF Working Paper
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Price, 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
The Career Intern Program: An Experiment in Career Education That Worked.
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Gibboney, Richard A.; Langsdorf, Michael G. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
The Career Intern Program is an alternative school for dropouts and potential dropouts, which enables these students to complete high school, improve their basic skills, and acquire occupational knowledge. This report briefly describes the program and its students, presents 1975 evaluation results, and lists critical features necessary for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Continuation Students, Dropout Prevention
Report on the Third Year of the Kumtuks Alternative Rehabilitation Program. Research Report 79-04.
Hunter, Susanne; Kettle, Helen – 1979
The Kumtuks program, an alternative rehabilitation program established by the Vancouver School Board in 1976 for Native Indian students, is described. Kumtuks was established to retain students between grades 6 and 9 when the drop-out rate among Native Indian students is the highest. The results of the evaluation of the first two years (1976-78),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Canada Natives, Continuation Students
Communicating with the Public: A Two-Way Communications Model.
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Stevens, Richard – 1976
The purpose of this practicum was to develop, implement, and evaluate a two-way communication program for Del Paso High School. The overall goal was to create an ever-increasing circle of people well informed about the school--an ambiance, an environment of knowledge and understanding. Relying on the experience and examples of other administrators…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Attitudes, Continuation Students, High Schools
The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts
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Schirm, 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