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Download full textSouthwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1973
This first volume of a study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 presents a profile of the respondents and summarizes their opinions of their high school experiences. A sample of the State's 89 school districts was contacted by mail or interview, with 5,063 respondents…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Attitudes, Followup Studies
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1973
The second volume of a study of former Texas high school students who left as graduates or dropouts during the school years 1963-64 and 1968-69 contains the study respondents' comments on school counselors, extracurricular activities, and dropouts, career goals, and employment experiences. Respondents who had contact with counselors questioned the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Attitudes, Followup Studies
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1973
This publication offers a sampling of the innovative programs begun or expanded in fiscal 1972 in the State of Maryland. These programs were designed to turn on bored students to the relevance of education, to develop career awareness among students at all grade levels and alert them to the values and rewards of work, to make adults aware of new…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Thornburg, Hershel D. – 1971
Because of high dropout rates and high minority concentrations within the Casa Grande, Arizona, Union High School District, a new program assigned to hold students in school and to shift their attitudes toward school and self was incepted during the 1968-69 academic year. The program focused on giving special consideration to core courses, English…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cultural Influences, Dropout Attitudes, Grade 9
Leveson, Irving; And Others – 1968
Medical care is viewed as an investment good, as contrasted with a consumption good. Numerous studies are cited which support the overall contention that improved health affects productivity through its effects on a person's education. The number of school days lost and the number of school dropouts which result from poor health are considered in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Economic Research, Education
Carpenter, Polly; And Others – 1971
The Texarkana model of performance contracting consists of five major elements: (1) turnkeying of cost-effective new technology as a basic program goal, (2) use of a performance contract for instruction, (3) use of a management support contractor, (4) selection of the learning system contractor by formal competition, and (5) use of independent…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Prevention
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 1970
This document is a compilation of the presentations made at the 1970 National Exemplary Institute, a conference designed to serve as a guide for exemplary projects being undertaken across the country. Presentations included in the document are: (1) "The Characteristics of This Changing Age in Our Vocational Education" by Luis Morton, (2) "The Role…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Models
Matteson, H. R.; Thompson, J. F. – 1972
A study was conducted to determine why some young farmers continue to attend Wisconsin's five-year (part-time) instructional program and others drop out. Specifically, both groups were compared in personal characteristics, satisfaction regarding in-class instruction, satisfaction regarding on-farm instruction, and relevance of program to student's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education
Beatty, Richard W. – 1972
Over a two-year period this study examined the relationship of two levels of supervision with both the job performance and weekly earnings of the hard-core unemployed (HCU). First- and second-level supervisors were measured on consideration, initiating structure, and social insight. After six months on the job the HCU's perceptions of their…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Employment, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction
Lyne, Evelyn – 1972
Project VIII is an innovative behavioral science-oriented educational program for potential dropouts. It is designed to reduce the dropout rate in grades 9 through 12, increase attendance in grades 7 through 12, decrease discipline referrals and suspensions, increase reading and math achievement in grades 3 through 11, and improve the student's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Consortia, Counseling Services
McCarthy, James A. – 1970
The project, a voluntary program, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, was designed to aid in the educational and occupational adjustment of young people, 16 through 20 years of age, who have left school, or who are potential dropouts. The rationale of the program requires that the trainee's goals come first, not…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, Dropout Programs, Employment Opportunities
Australian Dept. of External Territories, Canberra. – 1970
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the Committee's recommendations for upgrading education in the Australian territories of New Guinea and Papua. These recommendations were made with the intention of achieving higher standards of education, a professional body of teachers, a more effective use of limited…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrative Change, Dropouts, Educational Administration
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Div. of Instruction. – 1975
In South Carolina 235,420 children were served by Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs. The Fiscal Year 1975 allocation to South Carolina was 30,882,029 dollars. Reading activities were provided for 64 percent of Title I students, math programs for 48 percent, and dropout prevention activities for nine percent. The instructional…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Beesley, Earl G.; And Others – 1976
The purpose of this practicum was to improve elementary student attitudes toward school, teachers, and administrators through implementation of a LIFE Leadership Program. The program was implemented in three Dallas Independent School District (DISD) elementary schools at the fourth-grade, fifth-grade, and sixth-grade levels. The same grade levels…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Decision Making Skills, Dropout Prevention, Educational Environment
Coulson, John E. – 1976
Using examples from evaluations of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Basic Grants Program, the ESAA Pilot Program, and the sustaining effects of compensatory education programs, school and student attrition are discussed. As in the example cases, appreciable attrition can be expected in most longitudinal studies. The possible effects of this…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Compensatory Education, Dropouts, Longitudinal Studies
