This article summarizes the educational challenges facing students from migrant farmworker families. A university-based dropout recovery program has been successful at helping their students leave behind the label of "dropout." (Contains 10 references.) (Author)

This survey of Australian college students provides support for an alternative explanation of attrition for a specific group of university students: students who planned to withdraw from their original program of study after facilitating entry to another undergraduate degree. (EV)

Discuss several research reports on dropout prevention. Focuses on Teachers College, Columbia University, study that identified several reasons for low student dropout in new Coalition of Essential Schools Project (CCSP) schools in New York City, Includes selected references on dropouts and dropout prevention. (PKP)

A new calculation and reporting method designed to improve accuracy in arriving at dropout figures was tested last year by 288 school systems. The study, called the Dropout Statistics Field Test, is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). (MLF)

The principal of a Louisville, Kentucky, alternative high school uses a "come when you can" schedule, a promise of success, and a high school diploma rather than a General Education Development certificate to entice would-be dropouts and pushouts to finish their education. Highly individualized and computer-assisted programs make the…

Programs to encourage dropouts to finish school need to overcome the roadblocks of credits, time, and support services. Highlights nine specific hallmarks of effective dropout prevention programs gleaned from a study of 479 programs titled: "School Dropouts: Survey of Local Programs." (MLF)

Found estimated overall dropout rate of 31 percent and a transfer rate of 30 percent among Navajo students. Lack of comparable data across schools and districts made determination of the actual dropout rate very difficult. Concludes that the dropout phenomenon is complex, multicausal, and can only be helped with an approach that brings together…

Examined dropping out of school in four schools in Israel. Found significant differences in attitudes of persistent students and dropouts even before act of dropping out occurred. In vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, dropouts scored more positively than persistent students on Anderson's Alienation Scales: self-estrangement,…

This article is concerned with classroom related reasons for dropping-out from the adult English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. It presents a novel method of discovering how adult students from various cultural backgrounds perceive language learning events. (18 references) (JL)

Urges drop-out intervention during the early years of schooling, because children who are most likely to drop out of school are poorer readers than their peers and have repeated one or more grades. Suggests reading teachers carefully select instructional strategies and build students' self-esteem. (RS)

Describes scope of current school drop-out problem. Within this context, provides overview and analysis of school drop-out problem among Florida Seminole. Reviews current prevention and remediation strategies for populations at risk. Suggests culturally sensitive strategies for addressing this Seminole problem. (CRR)

Discusses the increasing dropout rates at many colleges and various efforts by institutions to retain students, including a greater emphasis on smaller "learning communities," special programs for high-risk students, tuition credits, development of early warning systems. Notes, however, that some students and colleges are mismatched and that some…

Investigated contradictions between the complex reasons why a percentage of English college students dropped out and the simplistic funding and policy assumptions about such "failures." Many factors influencing non-completion lay beyond students' and educational providers' control. Causes of dropping out may be better explained in the…

Conducted interviews with 39 young adults in the Netherlands who left school very early and followed their career development for an average of 5.5 years after dropping out. Approximately one in five students returned to school and achieved the educational attainment desired by the Dutch government. A similar number returned to schooling but did…

Presents dropout rates for 2000 as well as time series data on high school dropout and completion rates for 1972 to 2000. Also describes characteristics of high school dropouts and completers in 2000. (Author/SLD)