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Download full textBurzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs
Direct linkSlavkin, Michael; Braysmith, Hilary; Faust, Norma – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The purpose of this article is to review a partnership between a teacher education department and a dropout prevention program. The partnership developed from a variety of communities' needs, no less of which was that of reconnecting marginalized youth at a local dropout prevention school with their community through cultural and civic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Schools of Education, Dropout Programs
Words + 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
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1990
The Junior High School Intensive Care and School Involvement Program (ICSIP) in Washington (District of Columbia) was designed to supplement the regular educational program in four junior high schools by providing academic support, delivering social services to at-risk students, improving the school climate, and mentoring potential dropouts.…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Improvement, Extended School Day
Laughrey, Michael C. – 1990
This practicum paper describes the design and implementation of a mentoring program to improve the academic achievement of black male urban high school students. The program utilizes black adult mentors from both the community and the school's faculty. Mentors function as role models, advisers, and resource persons. The program design includes the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Students
Peer reviewedCoppock, Marjorie L. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1995
Describes a pilot mentoring program that involved 19 college students working with preadolescent and adolescent at-risk Hispanic youth in a Texas border city. The program, which consisted of 10 weekly classes in citizenship awareness and community participation and involvement, focused on dropout prevention and preparation for citizenship. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship Education, College Students, Community Involvement
Collier, Walter V.; And Others – 1987
Through Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE), the Children's Aid Society has been addressing problems of literacy and school dropout in an educational partnership between junior high schools in New York City and a number of major corporations. LIVE brings together junior high school students (grades 7 and 8) who…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
Children's Aid Society, New York, NY. – 1994
Project Learning through Industry and Volunteer Educators (Project LIVE) is a mentoring, tutorial, and world of work program that matches a junior high school student with a corporate volunteer. Since 1972, it has matched inner-city New York City seventh and eighth graders who are below grade-level in reading with volunteers who tutor in their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Dropout Prevention
Turner, Jeannine – 1993
The City of Austin (Texas) provides funds for an educational initiative to involve minority high school students in water quality issues and to reduce the dropout rate through positive role model interaction with academically successful students. Principal program activities were testing river water for pollutants and tutoring at-risk students by…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
