How Can We Help? What We Have Learned from Evaluations of Federal Dropout-Prevention Programs

How Can We Help? What We Have Learned from Evaluations of Federal Dropout-Prevention Programs

Published: Jun 30, 1998
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
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Associated Project

The Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs

Time frame: 1991-1998

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Education

Authors

Mark Dynarski

Summarizes the largest federal study ever conducted of dropout prevention programs, finding three promising models: alternative middle and high schools for those at risk of dropping out, programs aimed at helping older students earn a GED, and whole-school restructuring efforts aimed at dropout prevention.

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