More than 500 prospective students intending to enroll for distance study at the Hagen Fernuniversitat described themselves in aspects of their psychosocial attitudes and behavior. Information was gathered on which of these students actually enrolled for distance education and which of them were still registered for a second year. Compared to…

This handbook was developed to serve as a point of reference in identifying potential dropout problems. Included are several crucial recommendations for establishing an effective partnership between home and school that will help children succeed in school. Recommendations focus on preventive action in the classroom and at home. Artwork and…

In 1988 West Virginia University established a task force to evaluate possible strategies for a statewide dropout prevention program. An emerging focus of the task force is the creation of similar task forces at the local level that would make dropout prevention a community responsibility and build community partnerships to provide a comprehensive…

This paper based on one dropout prevention specialist's experience in working with at-risk students, discusses the need for comprehensive and collaborative efforts to meet the special problems of these children. Various national and state statistics underscore the growing cost to society for the failure to fully educate those students who are at…

This ERIC digest describes the lives of migrant families, migrant students' education, and migrant parents' involvement in their children's education. Migrant families tend to travel along well-established geographic routes which can be identified as the East Coast Stream, the Mid-Continent Stream, and the Western Stream. In 1986, the average…

The State of New Jersey mandated that local school districts establish attendance policies beginning September 1, 1981. The purpose of this study is to determine if this mandated policy has produced a significant effect on school attendance, dropout rate, and student performance. A specially developed questionnaire asked 42 principals, randomly…

Peasant women are chained to their homes as child bearers and unpaid laborers working for their husbands. Employing women in rural industry would increase female status and decrease male dominance in the family. Also family size would shrink as women spend less time at home. (MR)

Rural women in developing countries usually produce food for home consumption. Since this food has no exchange value women engaged in subsistence agriculture rank low on the socioeconomic scale. Colonization which brings farm technology and education to men only further deteriorates women's status in agriculture. (MR)

Thirteen separate excerpts from the responses given to audience questions at the Mid-Appalachia White House Conference include remarks by President Ford and others of his Cabinet on education, energy, employment, rural development, the economic status of the nation, etc. (JC)

The author discusses the problem areas of India's educational system and the reasons for its gradual breakdown. (BP)

A description of the focus and objectives of Project B.E.A.M. ("Behavioral Evolvement Through Achievement Management"), which utilized a combination of structured academic success through intensive tutoring and weekly counseling or "rap" sessions, using inexperienced college students from the same racial group as the children taught. Dramatic…

Of the 227 black student-athletes at the University of Illinois from 1931-1967, 65 percent failed to graduate. (DE)

Negative labelling harms by lumping together students with diverse learning problems; instead of diagnosing and treating their problems scientifically, students are stereotyped and relegated to watered down curricula and poor instruction, says one speaker. Other reports on vocational education's response to students special needs are briefly…