After four years of operation, the Title VIII program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has been instrumental in reducing the number of school dropouts in target schools by 52 percent. This report describes in detail some of the successful educational practices operating within target schools in Alabama, California, Colorado,…

This document presents a series of tables concerning a 1966 study of the Woodrow Wilson Fellows who entered graduate school from 1958 through 1963. At the time of the study, 49% of the fellows had not yet earned the doctorate, and were no longer in school. Among the men, 44% were defined as dropouts, and among the women, 64% were thus defined.…

A project was conducted to provide the guidelines and a format for a replicable procedure for assessing the placement and followup of dropouts of vocational programs of postsecondary institutions. Names and addresses were obtained from the registrar and admission's offices of Vincennes University for dropouts from fall 1972 through spring 1974…

Describes studies of dropout rates in Arizona and New Mexico, considering sex, grade level, reason for withdrawing, student enrollment, school location, ethnicity, and school's membership in the North Central Association. Principal reasons for student withdrawals in both states were nonattendance, lack of interest, and disciplinary difficulties.…

Describes a program to reduce the dropout rate for pregnant and parenting teens at York Vocational-Technical School (Pennsylvania) for the second semester of 1985-86. One successful feature was a "caring class" providing information about pregnancy, childcare, nutrition, and other subjects. The program retained most of its enrollees. Includes 1…

Supported by state aid, New York City schools developed a plan to reduce the dropout rate and improve attendance during 1984-85. The program focused on high-risk middle and high school students with severe attendance problems and featured attendance outreach, alternative educational programs, and guidance, counseling, health, and other services.…

Describes Second Chance, a program initiated by the Milwaukee Area Technical College to encourage dropouts and potential dropouts between the ages of 16 and 18 to earn diplomas. (JOW)

The author argues that exercise may be a unique health behavior, leaving researchers with problems in understanding exercise compliance. New definitions, new methods, and broader perspectives are needed. Four theories of compliance are described, and problems of research methodology are discussed. (Author/MT)

Tested patients (N=80) in an alcoholic rehabilitation program for field dependence with the Embedded Figures Test and for logical reasoning with two Piagetian tasks: the pendulum and the plant problem. Results suggested that cognitive factors play a more important role in alcoholics' response to treatment than has been recognized. (LLL)

The Montana School Accreditation Standards require schools to do follow-up studies of graduates and students no longer in attendance, therefore, dropout and graduate data is collected from all public and accredited (by the Montana Board of Public Education) non-public schools. Dropout data can be used in conjunction with graduate data to build a…

This report presents findings and recommendations from a study of the current system used to identify and report Texas students who do not graduate from high school or who drop out of school before enrolling in high school, required by the Legislative Budget Board, State Auditor's Office, and the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Dropout rates…

In compliance with state legislation, the Texas Education Agency prepares an annual report on dropouts in Texas public schools. As in past years, this report contains historical dropout data, a summary of dropout rates based on school district characteristics, and a listing of annual dropout rates broken down by county, district, and campus. A…

The Texas state legislature required that the state education agency submit a report describing a systematic plan to reduce the projected cross-sectional and longitudinal dropout rates to 5% or less for the 1997-98 school year. The plan reported in this document updates the state's 1995-97 plan to reduce the dropout rate. For that report, 39…

Describes methods of retaining potential dropouts at private, selective-admissions colleges and public, open-admissions colleges. (HS)