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McLaughlin, Diana Chiarky – 1984
This study examines the possible relationship between elementary and secondary students' use of a nonstandard form of English and the high school dropout rate in the Southern Appalachian region. The investigation began in two counties with interviews of teachers who appeared not to see that their students' speech variety differed from their own.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Dropout Characteristics
Flaherty, Toni – 1988
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to develop a profile of students who withdrew from courses between 1982 and 1986 and to compare this profile with the results of a 1979-82 withdrawal study. For the past 4 years, each degree credit student who has officially withdrawn from a course has been asked to complete a survey…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Courses, Dropouts
Download full textAustin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
Under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, local school district funds are supplemented in basic skills development, educational improvement and support services, and special programs. For the 1984-85 year, in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District, some of the Chapter 2 discretionary funds were allocated to four…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Desegregation Methods, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement
Cote, William E., Ed. – 1987
The negative effects of poverty, alienation, and racism influence the lives of black children most heavily. This report covering Michigan presents information and recommendations concerning the continuing decline in the quality of life for black children. It is the culmination of a series of activities including forums, symposia, and conferences…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black Family, Black Youth
Valentine, Nancy L. – 1987
Possible relationships among selected psychological, sociological, and economic characteristics of doctoral students were studied, and these characteristics were compared for students who completed or withdrew from Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) programs at West Virginia University. Questionnaires were mailed to 254 Ed.D. recipients and 287…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Doctoral Programs, Dropouts, Education Majors
Murray, Judith A.; Uhl, Norman P. – 1988
With the increasing number of part-time and adult students entering universities over the past several years, students who tend not to follow the traditional pattern of study, the task of accurate enrollment predictions has become increasingly difficult. The use of the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) software package to effectively track both…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropouts, Enrollment, Enrollment Projections
Snyder, Phyllis; Rosenblum, Sheila – 1987
The Atlanta (Georgia) Partnership of Business and Education, a private nonprofit corporation, is an umbrella organization that coordinates a range of activities aimed at strengthening education in Atlanta's public schools. There are over 300 business members of the partnership, and a wide range of affiliated civic, educational, and religious…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
PDF pending restorationDoherty, Frank J.; Vaughan, George B. – 1984
A study was conducted to assess the academic performance of students who transferred from Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to the University of Virginia (UVA), using information on student application and acceptance rates, test scores, grade point averages (GPA's), and graduation rates. Data supplied by UVA on 291 students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), College Graduates, College Transfer Students
DelForge, Clarence; Clark, J. Milford – 1989
In 1976, students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in a multigraded classroom who had evidence low mathematics scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were selected to work on the Hewlett-Packard mathematics program for 10 minutes each day on a classroom computer. The higher performing students (the upper 55% of the class) were selected as a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Dropout Rate, Elementary School Mathematics, High Schools
Biggins, Catherine M.; Sainz, Jo-Ann – 1989
Many functionally illiterate freshmen feel helpless in the face of their inability to learn to read at a competent level. College freshmen who drop out because of this disability are losers who suffer tremendous disadvantages when they leave college without earning a diploma. Possible causes of functional illiteracy hindering the least educated…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Illiteracy, Learning Disabilities
Minneapolis Community Business Employment Alliance, MN. – 1987
A growing portion of Minneapolis youth are dropping out of school before they are prepared for a job. At the same time employers face a growing labor shortage. The city must identify the at-risk youth and intervene early in preparing them for the work world. The common denominator of all factors that increase a youth's risk of chronic unemployment…
Descriptors: Career Education, Dropouts, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Baldwin, Janet – 1989
A study examined factor structure invariance among the writing skills of graduating High School Seniors and Adult High School Non-Completers. The study had three purposes: (1) to use LISREL confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedures to specify and test a series of factor models based on the test specifications content of the General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dropouts, High School Equivalency Programs, High School Seniors
Sher, Jonathan P. – 1989
This paper discusses the question of standardization and educational equity among rural school systems and offers three "fundamental challenges" for educators. The first challenge is to take seriously the power of education and to resist the temptation to reduce expectations placed on education and educators. The power of education is…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Assessment, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change
Mendel, Richard A. – 1988
This study of work force illiteracy in the southern region of the United States reached the following five conclusions: (1) the problem is concentrated more among high school dropouts than among grade school dropouts who never learned to read; (2) the South risks creating a permanent, massive pool of undereducated citizens unable to support…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Communication Skills, Dropouts
Kanarek, Ellen Armstrong – 1989
A study was conducted that focused on 5-year graduation as a criterion for success at a major Eastern university, and a set of predictors for use by those concerned with admissions policy was developed. The best predictors of 5-year graduation were persistence to the second year and first-year cumulative grade-point average. Among pre-college…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Admission, Demography, Dropouts
