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Fingeret, Allan L. – 1983
This paper describes one instructor's experiences in teaching an introductory psychology course in a traditional college (Rhode Island College) setting and in the College's nontraditional Urban Educational Center. The students at the Center, which offered tuition-free enrollment classes in high school equivalency preparation, adult basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Dropouts, Nontraditional Education
Download full textKnight, James – Monograph, 1987
Academic achievement is increasing in schools, but so is the dropout rate. Excellence in schools must be defined more broadly than the scores students earn on achievement tests. Concerns such as equity must be a part of the definition of excellence in education. It is essential that for some programs with disproportionate enrollments, educators…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Evaluation Criteria
Determining the Reasons Why Some Applicants Admitted to a Community College Do Not Begin Coursework.
Zitzewitz, Barbara; And Others – 1982
A study was conducted at Charles Stewart Mott Community College (MCC) to determine why many persons admitted to the college never complete any courses, to identify aspects of the college environment which might be changed to retain some of these potential students, and to learn how to channel recruitment resources toward applicants who are more…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Attendance, Community Colleges, Dropouts
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1984
As part of an effort to reduce the dropout rate in New York City public schools, a new project called Replicating Exemplary Holding Power Programs was created in June, 1983. Five schools participated as "demonstrators" because they were judged to have noteworthy holding power programs. Five additional "buddy" schools were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Enrichment Activities
Peer reviewedNovotny, Elizabeth S.; Burstein, Mario – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1974
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Correctional Institutions, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Aun, Emil Michael – Manpower, 1974
Summarized are the efforts of the National Ironworkers and Employers Training Program to employ older men who are members of minority groups in the ironworking trade at the journeyman level. (DS)
Descriptors: Building Trades, Construction Industry, Dropouts, Educational Programs
Peer reviewedShore, Milton F.; Massimo, Joseph L. – American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Delinquency, Dropouts
Peer reviewedYoung, Anne McDougall – Monthly Labor Review, 1975
Descriptors: Dropouts, Employment, Employment Statistics, High School Graduates
Avery, Anita – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1975
This article examines a few of the major factors contributing to the high attrition rate among minority college students. (HMV)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Students, Dropouts, Educational Finance
Mason, Ralph E. – High Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distributive Education, Dropout Programs, Motivation
Kohler, Mary – NASSP Bull, 1969
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Part Time Employment, Potential Dropouts, Program Evaluation
Miles, Margaret – Tech Educ Ind Training, 1969
Descriptors: Continuation Education, Dropouts, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities
Stromquist, Nelly P. – 1981
Five Youth Employment and Demonstration Program Act (YEDPA) programs are compared with the Career Intern Program (CIP) (an alternative high school program aiming to prepare dropouts, and those likely to abandon school, for employment) in terms of emphasizing issues related to program implementation. The YEDPA programs selected for comparison upon…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Nontraditional Education, Program Administration
Connett, Jane; Swanson, Monty – 1979
The guide is designed to provide the building level administrator a step by step model for implementing Project DEEP's (Diversified Educational Experiences Program) alternative classroom management system for secondary academic classrooms with disaffected (attendance problems, discipline problems, potential dropouts), average, and gifted and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Gifted
COOK, WALTER W.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DISCOVER THE PERSONALITY AND EXPERIENCE FACTORS WHICH DISTINGUISH STUDENTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL IN PROFESSIONAL TEACHER TRAINING COURSES AND ACTUALLY ENTER TEACHING, FROM THE PERSONALITY AND EXPERIENCE FACTORS OF STUDENTS WHO DROP OUT ALONG THE WAY. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED FROM ALL STUDENTS WHO ENTER THE JUNIOR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Rate, Educational Background, Personality Assessment
