A flexible seven-quarter automotive program prepares students for jobs at whatever level they have reached before being compelled to stop school. (GR)

This unusual Distributive Education program is designed specifically to rehabilitate ghetto dropouts with full-time jobs during the day and evening classes. (SB)

The likelihood of returning to school among high school dropouts was found to be influenced more by the individual's characteristics than by school related factors. Those who were older, married, had lower educational aspirations, and lived in counties with lower school expenditures were less likely to resume their schooling. (Author/MJL)

Path analysis was used to test the T into model of college dropouts using a sample drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Findings support the notion that commitment to the goal of college completion has the strongest effect on persistence. (Author/GK)

The intent of the retention effort at Pacific Lutheran University was to analyze the actual retention figures for the University, to gain an understanding of factors related to student retention, and to devise intervention recommendations to improve retention. Recommendations produced changes and the retention of freshmen students showed…

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)