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Establishing Service Goals for School Dropouts under the Job Training Partnership Act. Final Report.
Gentry, Larry; And Others – 1986
The State of Washington commissioned research into various issues involving services to school dropouts under the terms of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Data suggested that each service delivery area (SDA) had its own set of internal dynamics (economic, cultural, demographic variables) that resulted in a characteristic pattern of…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Frey, George T. – 1988
A concerted effort to pool resources and coordinate work by federal, state, and local educational agencies will be necessary to overcome the fragmentation that is occurring due to the current climate of changing demographics, increasing illiteracy, and the social effects of minorities in our schools. California has shown major changes in the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Community Support, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Fonvielle, Lanier Rand – 1983
This report describes two studies completed by the Child Advocacy Commission of Durham, North Carolina. The Durham school system has one of the lowest retention rates of any system in the state. The studies were used to advocate for and help implement new and better dropout prevention strategies in their schools. The report also outlines the need…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Attendance, Community Involvement, Dropout Prevention
Download full textO'Sullivan, Rita G. – 1989
A study assessed the effectiveness of various ways of identifying at-risk middle school students for participation in a dropout prevention program. It was considered important to explore factors related to identifying students who were most in need of the program. During the first semester of the project, teacher recommendations, attendance, age,…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Hellmich, David M. – 1989
In spite of difficulties in analyzing student retention in community college programs and courses, certain facts about student attrition are known. First, students who drop out of class or school tend to have lower grades than students who persist. Second, the ability of students to drop in and out of community colleges at will has negative…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, English Departments
McDill, Edward L.; And Others – 1985
This paper examines the potential influence of school reform policies on the high school dropout rate. We summarize a diverse set of reports on American education which recommend increasing academic standards in schools as a means for improving secondary school performance. We also describe our understanding of the processes by which youngsters…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Standards, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Crew, B. Keith; And Others – 1985
Computerized analysis of 1980 Census data documented educational deficiencies in 85 Central Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Dropout rates among youth ages 16-19 were found to be higher in Central Appalachian counties than in non-Central Appalachian counties, the poorest counties had the highest dropout…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged Schools, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Vogt, Dave – 1977
The objective of this study was to devise a methodology for predicting the return or nonreturn of a student for the spring semester, upon his completion of the fall term. Nineteen variables from existing student files were examined by several multivariate analyses to determine their ability to help in such a prediction. The random sample was of…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Higher Education
Mann, Noel R. – 1977
An interim status report is presented on a study of predictors to aid in reducing the 35-40% dropout/failure rate in general chemistry at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College, Perkinston Campus. Data from 1974-75 and 1975-76 were used to develop a formula whereby potentially weak students could be identified before they failed or dropped out…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Chemistry, College Science, Community Colleges
Lucas, John A. – 1980
As part of a continuing program of monitoring the number of student withdrawals and tuition refunds at William Rainey Harper College, students dropping courses during fall 1980 were surveyed to determine their characteristics and reasons for withdrawal. Students who simply stopped attending courses were not included in the study. The survey…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Attrition Characteristics: Division of Continuing Education Students, North Shore Community College.
Maradian, Steve – 1979
A survey was conducted by North Shore Community College during 1979 to determine the reasons why students in the Division of Continuing Education drop out of college. During the survey, a randomly selected sample of the 1,706 continuing education students who had been enrolled during Fall 1978 but who did not reenroll in Spring 1979 were asked to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report focuses on the young school drop-out portion only of the supported work experiment, which also included offenders, ex-addicts, and welfare recipients. The goal of supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
Bean, John P. – 1981
A theoretical model of turnover in work organizations was applied to the college student dropout process at a major midwestern land grant university. The 854 freshmen women subjects completed a questionnaire that included measures for 14 independent variables: grades, practical value, development, routinization, instrumental communication,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research, Employment Patterns
CANGEMI, JOSEPH P.
BECAUSE MORE STUDENTS THAN EVER BEFORE ARE WITHDRAWING FROM SCHOOL WITHOUT A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, SCHOOL-HOLDING POWER IS RECEIVING INCREASED ATTENTION. STUDIES REVEAL THAT STUDENTS WITHOUT A FORMAL HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION ARE HEADED TO DEAD END, MENIAL JOBS, THAT RELATIVELY FEW OF THEM WILL REACH THE SKILLED OR WHITE-COLLAR OCCUPATION…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Employment Opportunities
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLLEGE POPULATION AND OTHERS WITH SOME COLLEGE TRAINING.
ADAMS, WALTER; JAFFE, A.J. – 1965
RESEARCH WAS DIRECTED TOWARD ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS--(1) WHO IS NOT GOING TO COLLEGE AND WHO IS LIKELY TO GO IN THE FUTURE, (2) WHAT MAY BE THE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT BY 1975, AND (3) TO WHAT EXTENT DOES MODERN TECHNOLOGY REQUIRE INCREASED EDUCATION ON THE PART OF THE WORKERS. ALL ANALYSES WERE BASED ON DATA ALREADY COLLECTED BY THE…
Descriptors: Attendance, Census Figures, College Admission, College Attendance
