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Download full textQuintana, Erica; Cook-Davis, Alison – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2022
Arizona State University's (ASU) Bridging Success program, launched in 2015, is a campus-based support program for students with a background in foster care, also known as Foster Care Alumni (FCA). The program is housed within ASU's School of Social Work, which is part of the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. The program…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Transitional Programs, College Students, Youth
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Direct linkVera, Elizabeth; Shriberg, David; Alves, Alison; de Oca, Jessie Montes; Reker, Kassandra; Roche, Meghan; Salgado, Manuel; Stegmaier, Jessica; Viellieu, Lindsay; Karahalios, Vicky; Knoll, Michael; Adams, Kristen; Diaz, Yahaira; Rau, Ellen – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Low high school completion rates are an ongoing challenge for educators. This study provides the results of an evaluation of a ninth-grade summer transition program offered at a large public school with a high freshman dropout rate. The evaluation consisted of preprogram and postprogram surveys and interviews with 64 incoming freshman…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Hobden, Sally; Hobden, Paul – South African Journal of Education, 2015
School-level educational interventions targeting learners from low socioeconomic backgrounds often have the long-term goal of enabling access to, and successful completion of tertiary studies. This study tracked the progress of alumni of an educational intervention two or three years post school, in order to investigate their pathways to their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Graduate Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Progress Monitoring
Scherer, Charlotte; Wygant, Nancy S. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Evaluated an experimental volunteer summer program designed to increase the success rate of conditionally accepted college students. Collected information about student characteristics and aspirations and follow-up data regarding retention and academic success of student participants. Results indicated increased student understanding of goals and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Ireland, Eleanor; Golden, Sarah; Morris, Marian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2006
The integrated Aimhigher programme was established in 2004 to widen participation in higher education by raising the aspirations and developing the abilities of young people from underrepresented groups. In order to explore the extent to which young people subsequently made a successful transition at 16 and intended, or had decided, to continue…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Research Reports
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
