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Rochester Jobs, Inc., NY. – 1972
A program is reported for potential and actual high school dropouts that combines academic courses with work experience, and is designed to demonstrate the relationship between education and the world of work. Some of the objectives of the program were to test the feasibility of a joint educational approach of trade instructors and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Program Descriptions
BIENENSTOK, THEODORE; SAYRES, WILLIAM C. – 1964
INCLUDED IS AN ANALYSIS OF A WORK-STUDY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM FOR POTENTIAL DROPOUTS FROM NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOLS. THE FINDINGS ARE BASED ON DATA AND INFORMATION GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES, ALL OF WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE PROGRAM. THE ATTEMPT IS TO PLACE POTENTIAL DROPOUTS IN PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WITH EITHER PRIVATE EMPLOYERS OR WITH PUBLIC…
Descriptors: Community Action, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Dropout Prevention
Download full textWords + Numbers, Torrington, CT. – 1991
This evaluation of the 1989-90 BRIDGE Project, a dropout prevention program in Hartford (Connecticut), found that grade 9 students felt a heightened sense of control over their lives after one year in the program. BRIDGE is a multifaceted program that focuses on reducing the disengagement of at-risk students facing the critical transition from…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
Poulos, Nicholis – 1982
The Detroit Job Upgrading Program assists high school aged boys and girls who have dropped out of school, or who are considered to be potential dropouts, to reenroll and to progress satisfactorily until graduation. Students are also prepared for gainful employment in the nation's work force. The program is geared toward helping such youths make a…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Counseling, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Salerno, Anne – 1991
This ERIC digest examines the extent of early school leaving among migrants, conditions that precede early school leaving, common features of programs that work to retrieve dropouts, and illustrative programs that exhibit these features. The Migrant Attrition Project estimates a 45% national dropout rate of migrant students. Conditions that lead…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Tiedeman, David V.; Miller-Tiedeman, Anna – 1975
The first chapter of the literature review describes the Career Intern Program (CIP), a cooperative career education venture of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America and two Philadelphia high schools, which is composed of three steps: career awareness (general orientation, development, motivation); career exploration (academic…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Continuation Education, Counseling Services
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1989
The at-risk students served by vocational education include academically disadvantaged students, dropouts, students with limited English proficiency (LEP), pregnant teens, single parents, migrants, economically disadvantaged students, handicapped students, and potential dropouts. The claim that the U.S. economy is healthy because unemployment is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged, Dropout Prevention
PDF pending restorationBreglio, Vincent J.; And Others – 1976
This is the second of a three-volume final report of a study to assess the effectiveness of secondary and postsecondary cooperative education programs in the nation's hundred largest cities and to analyze the postprogram experiences of participants and nonparticipants. This volume presents the findings of the 24-month followup study of students…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Dropout Prevention
