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Download full textNew York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Continuing Education Curriculum Development. – 1972
The learning activities suggested in this publication supplement those found in the curriculum resource handbook "Learning Laboratories for Unemployed Out-of-School Youth." This phase of the program deals on a practical level with various health problems in short, achievable units. Activities keyed to the curriculum resource handbook and followed…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Guides
Carnes, Ernest B. – 1972
Recommendations for developing educational programs for high school dropout-prone students are presented in this publication. Data compiled on dropouts by the South Carolina State Department of Education indicate that approximately one out of every two first graders in South Carolina public schools drops out of school before completing the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Hornbostel, Victor O.; And Others – 1969
This is a report of a forty-four month investigation in which three curricular approaches to rehabilitating school dropouts were evaluated under experimental conditions. Program participants were school dropouts between the ages of 17 and 22, and the program was conducted in a large urban high school. The findings of the study were: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Characteristics
Curley, Theodore J.; And Others – 1971
During the school year 1969-1970 Quincy Public Schools in Massachusetts, a community of 90,000 adjacent to Boston, conducted an intensive investigation of all students leaving school for reasons other than transfer to another educational institution and death. Interviews with these students, their parents and an exhaustive analysis of school…
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Social Research Group. – 1972
This paper reports the results of the experimental use of new remedial education techniques in three urban out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. The use of these techniques and the evaluation of the results of these techniques constituted the Accelerated Learning Experiment. The research design called for study groups of 50 each in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Erickson, Edsel; Wortham, James – 1971
The objective of the Benjamin Franklin Urban League Street Academy, funded under Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965, is to help students to stay in school or to help dropouts to return to school, or enter the world of work prepared and motivated to adjust and achieve satisfactorily. The major evaluation objectives of this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Rossbach, Jim – School Shop, 1978
Gives a brief description of Titles I through VIII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 and urges teachers to investigate its opportunities. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Zahorchak, Michael J. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1977
Describes the author's first adult education experience, which was teaching an introductory philosophy course to adult high school drop-outs. Delineates the major problems encountered, particularly the students' poor self-image. This problem was resolved by employing a humanistic teaching manner known as conscientization, which was popularized by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Dropout Programs, Educational Problems
Kunerth, Jeff – Worklife, 1977
"70001 Ltd." is a national nonprofit organization which offers unemployed dropouts a way to complete high school without returning to the public school classroom and also to get employment in retail sales occupations. Its centers, frequently located in shopping centers, provide a business rather than a school environment. (MF)
Descriptors: Continuation Education, Distributive Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Phillips, D. John – Education Canada, 1984
Compares and describes school leavers in Ontario, Canada, and Somerset, England. Notes functional illiteracy is common among school leavers. Decides that the best approach is a concentrated effort on reading in grades three and four. Describes such a program to be instituted in York, Ontario, in September, 1984. (BRR)
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Peer reviewedForrest, Barbara – Guidance & Counselling, 1986
Describes the Store Front School project, a program of cooperative education aimed at rekindling students' interest in school and helping them earn their diplomas. The school conducts classes in an office in a shopping mall where the students work. (ABB)
Descriptors: Community Support, Cooperative Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Peer reviewedZakir, K. L. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
The government-sponsored dropout rehabilitation and adult education program in Haryana is described by the head of non-formal and adult education in that district in a paper he delivered to the 1975 All-India Adult Education Conference. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuation Education, Developing Nations
Wendt-Keswick, Karen – 1999
The Diversified Education through Leadership, Technology, and Academics (DELTA) program of the Austin Independent School District (AISD), Texas, serves students at each of the AISD 10 regular high schools. The goal of this open-entry, open-exit, competency-based diploma program is to recover former dropouts and to prevent students at risk of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Peer reviewedCurry, Patricia S. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Based on an analysis of student school records, teachers, administrators, and community citizens have developed a plan to incorporate programs designed to correct specific deficiencies in children in the early elementary grades, to constructively develop academic and social behavior by using positive reinforcement, meaningful rewards, and behavior…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives
Cox, Edwin H. – Universities Quarterly, 1971
A program for admitting to the university 15 to 16 year old school dropouts. (IR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Dropout Prevention
