During the 1982-83 school year, the Sheridan County School District implemented a 4-day school week alternative schedule. The alternative schedule was approved by the Wyoming State Board of Education on two conditions. First, the State Attorney General must affirm the State Board's right to permit alternative scheduling. Second, an outside…

This paper describes the effectiveness of the Austin Independent School District's public school prekindergarten program during a 3-year period. In 1985-86, the program consisted of full-day classes serving low-achieving and limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in Chapter 1 schools. In 1986-87, the district implemented half-day classes in…

The issue of appropriate truancy intervention is addressed in this description of the efforts of Minneapolis, Minnesota to design a continuum of interventions that relies on the resources of both the school and juvenile court. Exigencies which precipitated a truancy pilot project are discussed: a shared belief that truancy is a signal for…

Student absenteeism was studied in six high schools: three schools in each of two large school districts in the Pacific Northwest. The data source was grade and absence reports collected over a period of nearly two years. Approximately 50 administrators, over 500 teachers, and 10,000 students contributed data to the project. The analysis goal was…

Because of the unique nature of community colleges, no single model or calculation of attrition can fit all institutions. Each college falls somewhere on the continuum between the degree-oriented junior college, in which students pursue a linear pattern of enrollment from entry to graduation, to the consumer-oriented community college, in which…

The effects of religion and religiosity as measured by attendance at weekly religious services on the demand for private schooling is assessed. It is shown that Catholics, fundamentalist/evangelical Protestants, and respondents who attend religious services more often have a higher demand for private schooling. Data from the National Opinion…

This absentee program project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was evaluated for the New York City Board of Education. Four Brooklyn high schools participated in the program. Selected students were two grades or more retarded in reading and mathematics as indicated by their standardized test scores. They…

To ascertain the impact of home and school visitation, attendance records from a random sample of seventh, ninth and tenth grade students were examined. Information gathered was to determine the number of absences, unexcused absences and referrals. Records of students contacted by home and school visitors were examined to determine attendance…

This report aims to reconstruct the experience of the participants within the school districts in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia during the six-week period of a strike/lockout of nonteaching employees. It also attempts to determine the labor dispute's major effects on school performance and to identify ways of minimizing the effects…

This paper examines the growing problem of high school absenteeism and presents data gathered in a study of student attendance in a large Connecticut high school. Included are graphs displaying schoolwide patterns of absenteeism and a number of statistical tables containing attendance data related to such factors as student age, class, sex, race,…

This study compared the effectiveness of Learning 100 (L-100) with that of a conventional reading program in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. L-100 is a multimedia, multimodal, multilevel communication skills system designed for use with undereducated adults, out-of-school youth, and potential dropouts. There were 49 in the experimental…

This paper shows the school principal how to map his school district or attendance area to systematically organize and relate physical and cultural data into a comprehensive spatial pattern. Use of such maps is shown to make interactions of cultural and physical elements within the spatial pattern more easily seen and understood. Major sources of…

The results of scholastic aptitude surveys of freshmen entering Minnesota colleges in Fall 1965 and Fall 1968, most of whom had been tested as high school juniors in the winters of 1964 and 1967 respectively, are presented. Tables show the distribution of ability of students entering various types of Minnesota colleges. (MS)

The School Volunteers Program functions to facilitate the recruitment and placement of volunteers in several Title I designated schools, and is funded under Title I, E.S.E.A. While the services provided by the volunteers may on occasion include non-instruction related duties, the principal role performed by the volunteer is that of a tutor. Thus,…

The first portion of this document consists of maps and graphs that display important information on population, income, resources, and education in North Carolina. They have been constructed to illustrate the present situation from county to county and from school administrative unit to school administrative unit across the state. The second half…