Youth trained in generic coping skills rated their own gains in knowledge and skills as larger than those of the controls. The coping skills training contributed to their employment and helped reduce dropping out of school. (Author)

Reviews factors such as income, employment, housing, and transportation which tend to keep women and female-headed families concentrated in cities. Proposes that cities are ideal places for future experimentation in lifestyles not based on traditional sex roles. (GC)

Questions (N=40) were tested for their ability to discriminate compatible roommates. A stepwise discriminant analysis selected 15 items for inclusion in a discriminant function that, when used to reclassify pairs, was 90 percent accurate. The question that contributed most to discriminating the groups was weekday bedtime. (Author)

A potentially useful program-evaluation approach obtains information from program dropouts. This method was applied to university students who dropped out of four developmental programs. Results indicate many students recognize the value of the program for others, yet resist participating themselves. This approach was a useful supplementary…

In Elizabethton (Tennessee) a separate program with one teacher keeps some high school students from dropping out and helps improve their attendance. (Author/MLF)

This study shows Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and Strong Vocational Interest Blank can distinguish between groups who successfully complete secondary teaching preparation programs and those who do not. Findings suggest they are differentiated on the basis of personality and interest measures. (Author/BEF)

In this ecological analysis of intellectual, behavioral, and physical impairments in Riverside, California, the data analysis showed that high rates of intellectual impairments and behavioral retardation were located in the same general ecological proximity while physical disabilities had a very different spatial distribution. (Author/RLV)

Examining education achievement and its relationship to crime, this study develops predictive models for the total crime, violent crime, and property crime indexes. Seven indicies of crime were used: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft. Additionally, crime and its relationship to education achievement on a regional…

Observations about middle class high school dropouts are reported by staff of Project SAIL (Student Advocates Inspire Learning), an intensive special program involving peer and individual counseling. (CL)

A longitudinal study was conducted of over 2,000 young men through high school and for five years beyond. This excerpt from Volume VI of the Youth in Transition series presents a number of the authors' recommendations. (Author/MLF)

Examines the influence of certain opportunity costs (school attendance, educational quality attributes, and household economic status) on the educational demand of Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and non-Hispanic whites using 1988-89 National Education Longitudinal Study data. Basic results suggest that a school's attendance rate is…

Classified mothers as continuous attenders, returners, and before- and after-pregnancy dropouts based on school attendance before pregnancy and postpartum. Found that majority were in same group at both assessment times and that predelivery school performance was strongest predictor of delayed grade-placement. Also found that school attenders…

Administered the Persistence/Voluntary Dropout Decision Scale and Cope Inventory to Hispanic two-year college students to assess the impact of coping style on college persistence decisions. Results identified how different types of persistence decisions among students were positively or negatively associated with specific dispositional coping…

Describes four core elements of the Wai'anae High School Hawaiian Studies Program (HSP): contextualization of instruction within students' backgrounds; joint productive activity between teachers, students, and community mentors; detracking of students; and teaming and looping of teachers. The HSP is a community-based, culturally contextualized…

Chronicles the 5-year effort of a comprehensive student development and advising center to identify the most effective support programs for increasing one-year retention rates for first-time freshmen. The progression from intrusive advising programs to integrated and systematic learning skills instruction resulted in substantial gains in…