TEAM TEACHING AND CLASSROOM GROUPING FLEXIBILITY ARE GIVEN EMPHASIS. GREATER FLEXIBILITY IS NEEDED IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE SCHOOLS AS WELL. RATHER THAN BY GRADE, DIVISIONS SHOULD BE ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO PRIMARY, INTERMEDIARY, JUNIOR SECONDARY, AND SENIOR SECONDARY LEVELS. FLEXIBILITY WOULD REMOVE THE STIGMA OF A TRACK SYSTEM.…

The Edison Project is an ESEA Title VIII dropout prevention program for 250 tenth grade students who were identified as potential dropouts on the basis of previous attendance, grades, and grade level retention. Some of the problems that affect student attendance have been found to be gangs, money, race, and relevance of education. The project was…

Project Stay is a demonstration project of the St. Louis Public Schools, funded under Title VIII of Public Law 90-247, with several programs concentrating on reducing the number of dropouts. The project has the purpose of identifying students who are potential dropouts, determining their individual needs, and developing programs to meet those…

After questioning the credential value of the high school diploma at the present time and pointing out the need for considering the multiple psychological and social handicaps of the minority-group school dropout, this conference paper discusses (1) the rentention power of the schools, (2) youth employment, (3) equal job opportunities for Negroes,…