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City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY. Queens Coll. – 1984
Operation Success is a pilot project funded by the New York State Education Department to provide support services to high school dropouts and potential dropouts. It offers programs, including employment programs, intended to develop skills, self-awareness and self-direction, enourage career goals, and develop appropriate attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Download full textCage, Bob N.; Hardin, Dawn – 1991
The Northeast Louisiana University (NLU) Dropout Intervention Strategy Program (1990-1991) was designed to train administrators and teachers in junior high schools to recognize, treat, and relate to at-risk students who have been identified as potential school dropouts. The 13 participating schools were identified as having potentially high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, College School Cooperation, Counseling Techniques
Dayton, Charles; And Others – 1988
In the fall of 1985, 10 academy programs were established by the State of California as replications of the Peninsula Academies already operating in a local school district for four years. An academy is a modified high school program with the following specific elements, among others: (1) students with academic potential who are at risk of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Rate, High Risk Students
Dayton, Charles; And Others – 1987
The Peninsula Academies is a three-year high school program for at-risk students, designed to provide them with incentives both to graduate and to acquire labor market-relevant skills. An academy combines academic and technical training in a school-within-a-school setting, and is based on school-business partnerships. In the fall of 1985, 10…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Rate, High Risk Students
Rader, Martha S. – 1986
A project was designed to provide career development activities for selected educationally at-risk seventh graders in two target junior high schools in the Roanoke City Public School System, Virginia. The assumption was that career development activities that provide students with increased self-understanding, coupled with strategies involving the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Exploration
Bouton, Richard A. – 1989
A model program for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students at risk of dropping out was established through the enhancement of existing programs and classes at Corpus Christi Independent School District. The model combined and coordinated components of vocational education, alternatives to social promotion, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL)…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, High Risk Students
Scott, Joyce; And Others – 1983
This module, the first in a three-volume series, deals with dropout prevention, and is organized in two parts: a trainer's manual and a participant's resource manual. It is designed for inservice training of teachers, counselors, and administrators in vocational schools. Addressed in the individual chapters of the trainer's module are the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Conferences, Counseling Techniques
