In 1992, the Micronesian Language Institute established the PARADISU program, whose purpose was to strengthen and develop the English literacy and school participation skills of, and the school survival and success of children from, Chamorro, Chuukese, and Palauan families living on Guam through direct instruction and other activities. The program served parents and out-of-school youth. This report evaluates the program in its third and final year of operation to assess its productivity,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Elementary Education, English Instruction,...
This document provides the case studies for an original report on the status of coordination among job related education and training programs. The document contains case studies of state-level coordination in Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Washington. It also includes a section on coordination in selected California Service Delivery Areas (SDAs). To compile the case studies, interviews were conducted with state officials in the secondary and postsecondary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Out...
Children who have been excluded from school for physical, mental, or emotional handicaps or who have simply never been enrolled as a result of parental neglect or school discouragement are the focus of the discussion. Schools are charged with getting rid of undesirable pupils (truant, long-haired, or other non-conforming students) through legal and illegal exclusions or lack of followup and concern. The lack of special services is mentioned as contributing to the dropout rate and to failure....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attendance, Disqualification, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child...
Case studies of a wide variety of state and local job related education and training programs revealed enough about the range of coordination activities nationally to permit generalizations about the current state of coordination. In a 2-year effort to examine the coordination of vocational education and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs, little evidence of duplication was found. Some isolated instances of destructive competition, primarily caused by local interest group politics,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Employment Practices, Out of...
In the United States, 1.6 million young people between 18 and 24 years old are out of school (lacking either a high school degree or General Educational Development certificate) "and" out of work. These "disconnected" young people face significant barriers to economic opportunity and distressingly high odds of becoming involved with the criminal justice system. Project Rise, a program currently operating as part of the federal Social Innovation Fund (see Box 1 on page 2),...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Out of School Youth, Barriers, At Risk Persons, Intervention, Social Support Groups,...
In 1987, the New York City Board of Education established the following three placement units responsible for improving school attendance and preventing dropping out among at-risk youth: (1) the Central Placement Unit (CPU); (2) the Persons In Need of Supervision (PINS) Diversion Unit; and (3) the Bronx District Attorney's Educational Outreach program. The overall program goal was to return out-of-school youth under agency care to public school settings and to ensure the delivery of appropriate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attendance, Delinquency Prevention, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary...
Research studies for use in planning, administering, and improving the in-school, summer, and out-of-school programs of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) were reviewed. Findings were analyzed from those studies that surveyed individual NYC projects or specific elements and those that attempted to develop and test ways to solve problems. Some major conclusions were: (1) NYC researchers and enrollees believe that the program has been beneficial to underpriviledged yough, (2) Although NYC gives...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Federal...
Educators are considering ways to help youth identified as "at-risk" succeed in school and beyond. Alternative programs (AP) can be effective environments for students who may not fit the mainstream mold and need additional support. Effective AP use a holistic approach that encompasses social, academic, psychological and career-related needs. The following eight factors consistently recur in research reports and descriptions of effective AP: (1) caring, knowledgeable adults; (2) a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescent Development, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Academies, Career...
Today and every day, in neighborhoods and communities throughout Philadelphia, young people are making decisions that will change their lives forever. Some will decide to stay in school, graduate, and prepare themselves for college and careers. Others, who left school without a diploma, will summon the courage to seek out educational programs they hope will help them to complete high school or earn a GED. But far too many will consider their circumstances, conclude that schooling cannot meet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropouts, Out of School Youth, Citizenship, Neighborhoods, Graduation Rate, Dropout...
Minnesota's Youthbuild program helps at-risk youths gain useful job skills while building safe, affordable housing in their neighborhoods and working toward their high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate. In 1999, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated 751,000 dollars per year in Youthbuild funds. The program demonstrates substantial leveraging of matching funds through its coordination with local community, housing, educational, and law enforcement agencies;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Building Trades, Career Education, Case Studies,...
This document examines issues related to promoting education among teenage recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The document begins with background information about the provisions of recent federal legislation affecting TANF recipients under age 20. The following are among the 16 policy and management issues considered in Section 2: (1) special services that states should provide to promote education for TANF teens; (2) extension of education requirements and services...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Counseling Services,...
A comparative study of early school leaving in India, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States found that in spite of huge cultural and economic differences between these countries, there were common underlying causes of the school dropout problem. Economic need, sociocultural divisions, curricula that were unrelated to future work and life, norm-referenced systems of education, and ineffective schools created student disaffection that resulted in out-of-school youth in all four...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Active Learning, Comparative Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research,...
The true expense, in cash terms, of exclusion from school in England is investigated. Data were gathered in six English local education authorities (LEAs): two in London, two metropolitan authorities, and two country authorities. Permanent exclusion is a matter of concern to the Commission for Racial Equality because some ethnic minorities are affected disproportionately. The total cost of all excluded students was calculated for each of 3 LEAs and the costs of 10 individual cases in each of 3...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic...
In this article, the author discusses the complex challenges of high-achieving Black students who are successful in becoming immersed in predominately White STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) spaces and how such immersion can exacerbate their experiences of racial stereotyping and other forms of racial bias. The author illustrates these complex racialized experiences through the story of Maurice, a high-achieving high school mathematics student who successfully negotiated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Experience, STEM Education, High Achievement, Out of School Youth, African...
This report is an executive summary of two previously-released reports presenting findings from Wave 2: The Academic Achievement and Functional Performance of Youth with Disabilities and After High School: A First Look at the Postschool Experiences of Youth with Disabilities. Some key findings presented in the Overview include the following: (1) A direct assessment of students' language arts, mathematics abilities, and content knowledge in science and social studies suggests that from 77 to 86%...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Performance Based Assessment, Out of School Youth, Education Work...
This document contains nine papers devoted to the labor market problems faced by out-of-school and other disadvantaged young people in the United States and policy options and strategies for addressing those problems. The papers update the data on out-of-school young adults, review the lessons learned from past youth programs and policies, identify seven guiding principles for policy and practice in the youth field, and detail a model for creating a community-wide system built on collaborative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Cooperative Planning,...
This KIDS COUNT report details statewide trends in the well-being of Delaware's children. The statistical profile is based on 10 main indicators of child well-being: (1) births to teens; (2) low birth weight babies; (3) infant mortality; (4) child deaths, age 1-14 years; (5) teen violent deaths by accident, homicide, and suicide; (6) juvenile violent crime arrests; (7) high school dropouts; (8) teens not in the labor force and not in school; (9) children in poverty; and (10) children in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Health,...
The Robert Bowne Foundation for out-of-school time (OST) supports the development of quality programs that offer literacy education in the out-of-school hours to children and youth of New York City, especially young people from disadvantaged communities. The foundation's networking meetings, now in their 10th year, offer quarterly forums in which participants from a wide variety of programs across the city can share their work, develop new ideas for their programs, and discuss important issues...
Topics: ERIC Archive, State Standards, Out of School Youth, After School Programs, Alignment (Education),...
This KIDS COUNT databook is the sixth annual profile examining statewide trends in the well-being of Rhode Island's children. The statistical portrait is based on 37 indicators in 5 areas: (1) family and community (covering child population and children in single-parent families); (2) economic well-being (covering median household income, cost of rent, children receiving child support, children in poverty, children in the Family Independence Program, children in families receiving food stamps,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect, Child Support,...
The National Fund for Workforce Solution's Young Adult Initiatives aim to test and implement new strategies for targeting America's young adults and share this information so that employers and workforce development can join forces in investing in the millions of young adults across the nation. This case study focuses on promising findings from two programs supported by the Milwaukee Area Workforce Funding Alliance. These programs were designed to expose high school students to promising...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Young Adults, Youth Employment, Labor Force Development, Case Studies, Employment...
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Topics: Violence, Victims of Crime, Substance Abuse, Prenatal Care, Poverty, Out of School Youth, National...
Reported is the first phase of a project to evaluate the effectiveness of selected Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) programs. Effectiveness was judged by community and work adjustment of enrollees. Experimental and control groups were selected in four cities; samples were mainly Negroes, with more females than males. Findings from interviews with the sample subjects showed that the program was effective but needs improvement in the racial and sex balance of enrollees as well as in the work...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Females, Job Development, Males, Out of School...
The School District of the City of Saginaw (Michigan) has annually reported on the rate and nature of the dropout population; this dropout report is the fourth edition of the State defined generation of dropout reports. Two hundred twenty-four, or 8% of Saginaw's 2,805 students in grades 9-12, voluntarily terminated their high school education between September 24, 1993 and October 7, 1994. This rate represents an increase in the dropout rate from 4.9% in the previous year. Since the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attrition (Research Studies), Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout...
The merits of a public campaign can rarely be gauged fully in its early months or even in its initial year. Rather, the true measures of a campaign's successes are revealed over time: in its ongoing impacts on opinion or policy, and on the tangible results it achieves. On both accounts, Philadelphia's Project U-Turn campaign continues to make significant progress. The October 2006 launch of the Project U-Turn campaign generated considerable public attention, and the first year's work produced...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropouts, Educational Quality, Nontraditional Education, School Districts,...
The Education Park is designed to provide special facilities and services for community groups. By community groups we mean not only adults or those who have completed school, but school-age children regardless of their school affiliation who can reach the Education Park to utilize its facilities after the normal day school hours are completed. The principal means by which community personnel will be served at the Education Park is through the creation of an extensive youth and adult center....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, After School Centers, Community Involvement, Continuing Education...
This report delves into a rich new body of data and analysis from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children (OOSCI), which confirms that the task of achieving education for all is far from over. The government-backed national studies carried out under the Initiative have marshalled a wide range of data sources for innovative analyses, revealing crucial information on the magnitude of the problem, and on who the out-of-school children are and where they live. The studies have used the data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Elementary Education, Childrens Rights, Out of School Youth,...
This report for individuals and organizations engaged in literacy outreach activities explores a youth agency-based, social service professional-facilitated strategy for reaching out-of-school youth. Chapter I describes the growing problem of school dropout. Chapter II synthesizes governmental and scholarly studies of youth and schooling, reporting findings on the numbers and identity of early school leavers and their social and economic prospects. Various analyses of dropouts' attitudes toward...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs, Dropout...
Based on a secondary analysis of the Scottish School Leavers Surveys from 1978-96, a study focused on low attainment with particular reference to gender. Findings indicated the proportion of low-attainers at ordinary or standard grade had more than halved since the 1970s; it declined more among women than men. Low S4 attainment was associated with social background and neighborhood deprivation. The proportion of low-attaining S4 leavers who entered full-time employment had fallen sharply since...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Developed Nations, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Education Work...
A critical need remains for a practical and low-cost methodology to bridge the gap between methodologies for assessment of literacy at the national survey level. At the program level, it must be able to be used effectively by those in developing countries with limited funds but major literacy problems. Etic (external, quantifiable, comparison-oriented) measures are clearly important in understanding how people acquire literacy, how educators and policymakers view literacy, and how economic and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative...
Diverse patterns of organization exist across the English post-16 education and training (ET) system. Direct consequences of national policy drivers and the shift to a single mechanism for all publicly funded non-higher education (HE) post-16 provision are strong imperatives toward collaboration between providers, planned provision across an area, and cohesion across the phases of school, further education, and HE. A theoretical study of models of organization shows ways in which structure can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Developed Nations,...
This report examines how successful America's high schools have been in raising high school graduation rates over the past decade and how severe the high school dropout problem actually is. It reviews existing empirical evidence on the school dropout problems of America's youth during the 1990s. It also presents evidence to support the view that some of the more widely cited official government measures of school dropout rates substantially underestimate the number of youth who drop out. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Dropouts, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Dropout...
This report presents key statistics relating to: (1) child malnutrition in Africa; (2) HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa; (3) child marriage, birth registration and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C); (4) education in Africa; (5) child mortality in Africa; (6) Drinking water and sanitation in Africa; and (7) maternal health in Africa. Highlighted statistics include: (1) In Africa, mortality rates among children under five decreased by 45 per cent between 1990 and 2012, but still half of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Statistical Data, Child Health, Nutrition, Acquired...
The labor market prospects of out-of-school young adults and options for improving the employment and earnings potential of all young adults were examined. The following issues were among those considered: demographic and social factors affecting young adults' employment prospects; employment trends and labor market problems in the United States in 1989-1999; and trends in the real weekly earnings of employed young adults. The analysis revealed that, although most young adults have benefited...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Education, Adolescents, Apprenticeships, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills,...
The effectiveness of employment and training (E&T) programs in improving labor market outcomes can be assessed by measuring the impact on the future success of participants. The program with the greatest success in reducing dropout rates among at-risk youth is the Quantum Opportunities Project. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs have been unsuccessful in raising employment or earnings of disadvantaged out-of-school youth,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers, Dropouts,...
This Kids Count report investigates statewide trends in the well-being of Delaware's children. The statistical report is based on 10 indicators of child well being: (1) births to teens; (2) low birth weight babies; (3) infant mortality; (4) child deaths, children 1-14 years; (5) teen violent deaths; (6) juvenile violent crime arrests; (7) high school dropouts; (8) teens not in the labor force and not in school; (9) children in poverty; and (10) children in one-parent households. This report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Health, Children,...
More than half of all Denver Public Schools (DPS) students who start in the ninth grade do not graduate within four years. If DPS is to significantly impact this graduation crisis, it must prioritize the implementation of systemic and research-based strategies around prevention, recuperation, and recovery of off-track students. With a 100 percent graduation goal in mind, policies need to be established with appropriate incentives for districts, schools, parents and students to keep youth in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropouts, Public Schools, Out of School Youth, Graduation, Grade 6, Summer Schools,...
Having recognized that young people under 25 years of age were among the state's greatest resources, the Louisiana Workforce Commission convened ten state agencies to form the Youth Policy Network (LYPN) to develop an interagency collaboration to help Louisiana youth acquire the necessary skills for success in education and employment. The LYPN identified essential assumptions, strategies and outcomes that sustain healthy growth and development for youth, such as the following: (1) investment...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Community Development, Demonstration Programs,...
Prepared by an instructor and curriculum development specialist of the Minnesota Work Opportunity Center, this course is designed to train dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth for occupations as aides or orderlies in hospitals and nursing homes. Each student enrolled in the program receives a personal orientation, and after demonstrating the necessary skills and self-confidence, they receive practical experience in a hospital under the instructor's supervision. A cooperative program with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Course...
This article draws on a larger study that examined the ways in which out-of-school youth responded to a context of HIV/AIDS and how they themselves can be active participants in HIV/AIDS prevention. In addition, four out-of-school youths, trained as fieldworkers, interviewed 32 other out-of-school youths in the Shongweni area of KwaZulu-Natal about their attitudes towards VCT. The out-of-school youth displayed a very positive attitude towards VCT and 91% stated their intentions of getting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Attitude Measures, Acquired Immunodeficiency...
This report is the fifth to present nationwide data on the well-being of America's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of child well-being and on contextual measures describing the changing population and family context. Part 1 of the report, "Population and Family Characteristics," presents information illustrating trends in eight key demographic measures, including children as a proportion of the population, racial and ethnic composition, and difficulty...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Asthma, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child...
The 10 portraits, or case studies, in this book are intended to show how locally-owned adult education turns everyday learning into social and economic well-being. Taken alone, each portrait tries to give a particular insight into the daily transformation of adults and their local communities. Together, the group portrait shows how strongly adult and community education (ACE) is growing the community asset called, social capital. An introduction sketches in the theoretical frameworks used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Benefits, Community Development, Community...
For many young people, adult education offers a "second chance" to obtain a high school credential, to develop literacy skills, or to succeed in a new country and a new language. With more support, it can also represent a second chance for youth to develop civic knowledge and skills and lifelong patterns of civic engagement. The aim of this study is to lead to further collaborations between policymakers and adult literacy educators. Prior to the research performed in this study, no...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Out of School Youth, English (Second Language), Adult Literacy, Adult Basic...
An assessment is provided of the ability of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors and local educational agencies to cooperate in the development of innovative educational and training programs for low-income youth. The data presented are based on observations and interviews conducted at 40 of 47 operational sites administered by Youthwork, Inc. Following an introduction are four substantive chapters, one on each of the four program areas where projects were selected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Credits, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically...
Most of Arizona's 13 state-funded school-to-work (STW) partnerships are serving out-of-school youth through existing programs within their boundaries. The programs typically fall under the jurisdiction of educational institutions, training institutions, business and labor organizations, and other organizations. The most common approach to serving youth is through partnerships with educational institutions and alternative schools in particular. The least frequently used approaches to recruiting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Out of School Youth, Postsecondary...
California Assembly Bill 922 was signed into law as an urgency measure in October 1995. It assigned responsibility for expelled students to counties and school districts. This report is the first of a series of evaluation reports that will be disseminated on programs implemented in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to satisfy the mandates of Assembly Bills 922 (AB 922) and 2834 (AB 2834) (not discussed in this document). It presents information obtained from interviews with 10 key...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Expulsion, High Risk Students,...
Intended for the front-line practitioner, this toolkit provides tips, options, and practical how-tos for designing and implementing quality, youth-focused, and business-focused services for out-of-school youth (OSY) who are currently in, or about to enter, the workforce. It outlines an "income growth strategy" (IGS) that addresses what services should be delivered and how, when, and where to deliver services. Section 1 discusses the need for highly skilled workers and balancing 'work...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee...
This course description was developed by educators for use at the Work Opportunity Center which was established to teach high school dropouts and/or hard-core unemployed youth. The ultimate objectives of this course are to prepare students for employment in dry cleaning occupations and to assist them in completing their high school graduation requirements. Instruction in marking, invoicing, and customer service is on an individualized basis conducted in an innovative atmosphere of...
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Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides,...
This study was designed to ascertain characteristics of three groups of secondary school students: absentees, check-outs, and nonenrollees. An effort was made to determine the magnitude of the problem, the whereabouts of the nonattenders, and the reasons for their nonattendance. Two sources of data were utilized: (1) personal interviews with students, parents, or neighbors; and (2) data obtained from the cumulative records of the students. Generally, the findings indicated that prediction is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Dropout Characteristics, Individual Differences, Out of School...
The overall objective of Subcommittee No. 3 of the Implementation Task Force on Education and Training for Minority Business Enterprise was to effect actions required to implement two recommendations in the final report of the initial task force. The two recommendations were: (1) to establish a minimum of 12 pilot programs in entrepreneurial career awareness and training for minority youth at the elementary and secondary levels and for youth outside the established school systems, and (2) to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Black Businesses, Business, Business Education,...
Results of a study of an experimental and demonstration job training project (Chicago JOBS Project) for approximately 1,500 underemployed "functionally illiterate" inner-city Negro youth are reported. The project, which lasted from September of 1963 to the summer of 1964, included basic education, vocational training, and group and personal counseling. The study focused on individual rather than program factors related to success, using data derived from questionnaires and interviews...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Black Youth, Dropouts, Evaluation,...
