Model Programs Database
Model Programs Database
Recovery/Reentry Emphasis
This list has 155 programs
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The American Education Corporation offers electronic learning products and solutions to serve at-risk students in many alternative learning environments. Our A+® products integrate into at-risk learning programs, including traditional classrooms, response to intervention, credit recovery, and dropou... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Schools like AAA are challenging reform efforts like no other time in recent history. AAA and other dropout intervention and recovery schools would like to advance the notion of credit flexibility over Carnegies Units as a primary unit of measurement for credit attainment. Credit flexibility assum... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Academic Alternatives is multifaceted and provides students who are three or more credits behind an opportunity to exceed the normal six credits earned per academic year. The Foundations Program allows students who are sixteen years old and in seventh, eighth, or ninth grades to enter a pre-GED e... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Academy of Creative Education (ACE) is a nationally recognized non-traditional non-punitive model high school that provides at-risk youth with varied options and opportunities to successfully graduate. Since 1991 (ACE) has assisted over 4,000 high school students in graduating. Educators use i... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Since 2001 ACE Learning Centers has been helping students at risk of dropping out of school become high school graduates. ACE is dedicated to achievement, commitment, and excellence. ACE is a unique, nontraditional school that has successfully helped thousands of at-risk students graduate high schoo... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Acellus courses are interactive, self-contained educational programs that carefully guide the student through each lesson. The interactive features of Acellus are used to identify "holes" in the students' knowledge and understanding of specific concepts. Acellus then interactively provides specifi... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Achieve3000's vision is to break down the barriers that prevent children from reading, writing and learning to their full potential through one- on-one differentiated instruction, one motivating and equalizing discussion topic for the entire class, and one click reporting and management tools for th... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Achieve Career Preparatory Academy serves the greater Toledo area. The school has completed its first year of operation June 2010. The student population consists of approx. 95% African American, 4% White, 1% Hispanic, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. 85% of students have had more ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Admission Possible is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping promising, low-income young people prepare for and earn admission to college. Our mission is to identify low-income high school students with the potential and motivation for college and then to provide them with four critical servi... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The program begins the summer before students enter 9th grade and continues until they have graduated. Students have personal plans of progress and are monitored throughout their high school careers.
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| This program is an example of a district's commitment to provide targeted services to students who are at risk of not completing high school. The program in the Agua Fria High School District serves students in all four high schools: Agua Fria, Desert Edge, Millenium and Verrado. Through the grant, ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The ALAS Dropout Prevention Model and ALAS Resilience Builder have been rigorously tested. These programs have been shown to increase school grades and credits. Both programs have been proven effective with special education students, English language learners and students from low-income communitie... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Descriptors: Academic Improvement, Alternative Education, Attendance/Truancy, Behavior Management/Discipline, Charter School, Community Collaboration, Computer Assisted Instruction, Counseling/Advisories/Coaches, Credit Recovery, Extended-School/Summer Program, Literacy Development, Mentoring/Tutoring, Study Skills, Teen Pregnancy |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The goal of Alignment Nashville is to improve the education and lives of Nashville's children and its future by aligning resources to Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools' strategic plan and engaging the entire community around complex issues facing our children and youth. As such, Alignment Nashvi... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| This program provides an alternative track for students who have attended high school but are unable to graduate because they have failing state tests or other factors that do not allow them to complete high school. Students must meet graduation requirements (21 credits) for Blue Ridge Academy and ... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| There are thousands of high school dropouts in America, and all have the ability to graduate and earn a diploma. Alternatives Unlimited (AU) helps them "drop back in" with a program that fits their schedule and their needs. Mission Statement: To assist public school districts by providing innovativ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| America Can! is a non-profit organization operating public charter high schools throughout the country. America Can! academies provide a second-chance education for at-risk youth - kids who have dropped out or are at-risk of dropping out of school. Students learn in a non-threatening environment, re... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Apex Learning provides a range of core curriculum for at risk students, credit recovery, alternative education, remediation/intervention, literacy, summer school, distance learning, and acceleration. Programs include digital curriculum, professional development, support, and if desired, instruction ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center Inc. is an independent (charter) district that operates on four campuses. The AAEC schools offer a superior academic program that meets students where they are academically and socially, and prepares them for college. AAEC offers advanced coursework, comprehens... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Indian Oasis program coordinates multiple services for students before, during, and after the regular school day, six days a week. Students attend regular high school classes during the day, then participate in clubs, after-school tutoring, the MESA science program, career and personal counselin... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Bath County Graduation Success Academy, GSA, is a program developed by Superintendent, DPP, and the Bath County Board of Education. The program was developed to target at-risk students in the Bath County School District in grades 7-12. In the 2007-08 school year Bath County had upwards of 30 s... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. We believe that in order to sustain successful schools ... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| In the world of high school education, Boston Day and Evening Academy is truly extraordinary. An alternative public charter high school located in Roxbury, BDEA is open 12 hours a day in order to serve any Boston Public School student who is overage for high school, who has had trouble with attenda... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Boulder Preparatory High School is currently being evaluated based on: Academic Achievement, Academic Growth, Post-Secondary Readiness and Student Engagement. Over the last 15 years, 100% of our graduates have been accepted to college with over 60% matriculation rate. The graduating classes have ave... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Bright Future Program is a Running Start funded program serving students from all area high schools. The Bright Future program gives students an opportunity to start their college courses early by allowing qualified high school students access to accredited programs at Seattle Vocational In... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Buena High School Alternative Learning Center offers an array of educational programs to high school students. Its mission is to reduce the number of students that drop out of school prior to graduation. The center is located on the campus of Buena High School in a new facility designed to creat... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| These industry recognized certification programs prepare students for entry-level employment in the field of telecommunications connectivity. Several industry partners in the telecommunications and connectivity fields have approved the certification for content and applicability. Program objective... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Camp I.M.P.A.C.T. (Initiating Maturity by Placing Adolescents in Character Training) is a mentoring program designed to give high school boys, grades 10-12 that are at-risk, academic assistance, character instruction and behavior modification through a local cohort support system.
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Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Career Education Options Program (CEO) helps students achieve self sufficiency through education, job training, and life skills development. The program helps out-of-school youth to pursue their GEDs and/or professional technical associate degrees at local community colleges.
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| How many of you remember back in the day when a child (this may have been you!) was seen walking the streets or hanging out during school hours? By the time that child arrived home his/her parents had received a phone call to alert them that little Johnny/Susie didn't go to school today... Truancy ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The study assist program allows students who have demonstrated the need for additional academic help based on lack of credits, low GPA, history of attendance issues, etc to be placed in a one period per day class that provides support for their academic needs. Students earn a half credit each semes... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Chugach School District (CSD) is a turn-around story, emerging from crisis to success. Challenged with serving children/families in a large geographic area with vast expanses, they have emerged a leader in education reform. CSD's innovative "Voyage to Excellence" (VTE) Program has an established re... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Clark Pleasant Academy (CPA) is the first school of its kind in Johnson County. Located just west of Whiteland Community High School, CPA offers a fresh alternative for students on their educational path towards graduation. CPA utilizes the PLATO Learning Network to accomplish mastery of required... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| This is an alternative high school separate from the traditional high school, but on the high school/middle school campus. It serves predominately students from Clarke Community (95% +) which has a total enrollment of about 350 at-risk students in grades 9-12. There are the equivalent of two full-... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Ponderosa High School and Tse' Yatto' High School (referred to in this report in conjunction with Ponderosa) are regional accommodation schools under the direction of the Coconino County School Superintendent. The program provides an alternative path to a high school diploma to students who would ot... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The mission of Colorado Youth for a Change is to solve the dropout crisis in Colorado. By incorporating national research and local data analysis, CYC is charting a path to fulfill the Governor's challenge of cutting the dropout rate in half in Colorado by 2017. CYC works collaboratively with scho... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Come Back Kids is a program that offers prevention/intervention services to students of all ages who wish to re-enroll in an educational program. Studente high school graduation requirements/credits Prepare for the General Educational Development (G.E.D.) Earn high school and college crs who have fa... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Communities and Schools for Success (CS²) is a Massachusetts-based educational initiative that seeks to transform the educational experience for those young people who are most under-served and disconnected from traditional educational and career paths. Started in 1993, CS² is managed by Commonwealt... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| CompassLearning's online solutions assess student performance, automatically prescribe appropriate curriculum activities to help increase students' academic performance, and report the progress of students individually and in groups. The program is flexible and adaptable by districts to create a pro... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| CompuHigh provides year-round online high school courses. Students can enroll any time of the year and start immediately. Our online high school is nationally accredited by CITA,SACS, and North Central. Our high school offers individual and diploma programs. CompuHigh offers summer school... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Educational Options, Inc., is a for-profit educational technology firm that understands the need for innovative learning strategies for today's youth. It provides an Internet-delivered school curriculum of 31 high school and middle school courses. The NOVEL/STARS curriculum has been integrated wi... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Connect program located in Horry County Schools in South Carolina, makes it possible for over-age, at-risk students to graduate from high school in three years with the marketable skills that employers are seeking. These students meet the same diploma requirements and take the same standardized ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Creating Lasting Family Connections is a program designed for parents and youth which offers training modules for both audiences. The program is designed to: improve communication and conflict resolution skills; build coping mechanisms to resist negative social influences; practice effective refusal... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| CUNY Prep is committed to developing life-long learners who have the academic, personal, and social skills necessary for higher education, expanded life opportunities, and active participation in community and civic affairs. The program offers out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 18 an opp... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Daylight/Twilight Program serves overage students ages 16 and older who are under-credited and have academic, behavioral, social, or personal problems. The program offers a flexible schedule that allows students to attend school in 4-hour sessions from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The program focus... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Delaware Valley High School was founded in 1969 with the sole mission of addressing the needs of at risk youth. Since that time, DVHS has evolved into a leader in the alternative education field earning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Model Program Award for Best Practices. DVHS consists of 3 c... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Pascagoula School District's DESTINATION GRADUATION! program is part of the district's five-year strategic plan to raise high school graduation rates to 100 percent. The district has an extensive community awareness campaign that includes commercial, billboards, yard signs, bumper stickers, butt... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Detroit City High School was established in 1991 as an extended year alternative school for students who exhibited drop-out behaviors or had dropped out. Our mission is to educate and empower students and their families. Top priorities for the school include: Providing academic foundations on whi... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Diploma Plus (DP) schools are small alternative high schools that integrate dropout recovery and prevention programs with college- and career-readiness initiatives. As stated by the program's mission statement, Diploma Plus seeks to create small high schools that "incorporate a supportive scho... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Having begun as alternative school and credit recovery programs in the Fall of 2007, our initiative has expanded to a school-wide reform effort. Our school-wide efforts include Intervention embedded within the school day for all students who are struggling with low grades in current classes or have... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The RPS Dropout Prevention Initiative is a targeted, multi-tiered and comprehensive dropout prevention, intervention and recovery program that addresses the needs of potential dropouts, students who have dropped out and their families. Program includes dedicated recovery specialists to recover stude... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| A controlled study showed that the program reduced dropout rate amongst low-performing minority students from 56% to 16% and increased grade points (GPA x units completed) an average of 9.25 points. Reason for program's dramatic success is that it effectively increases self-efficacy, emotional intel... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Dual enrollment (DE) provides high school students with the opportunity to take college courses while still in high school, and often to gain dual credit at both the high school and college levels for these courses. Although DE originated as a strategy to enhance the high school experience of ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Dubuque's Reengagement Center reaches out to all drop-outs in our community. We target over-age/under-credit students and connect them with our GED program. Students who have credits in place and can achieve a diploma prior to aging out are also targeted for placement back into a diploma program. Ou... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The program has a three-pronged approach. Prong one is the Freshman Academy, which served a subset of the freshman students in years one and two of the grant. The goal of the program is to catch students as they enter high school and create a positive, supportive and challenging experience for them ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| An initiative of the American Honda Education Corporation, a 501(c)3, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Honda Motor Company. A full-scholarship high school for students and a low-cost professional development center for adults. Located in the mountain resort community of Estes Park, Colorado, ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| EDUCATION 2020® is a leading provider of one-on-one online instruction in core and elective courses for students in grades 6-12. Designed to help students graduate from high school, EDUCATION 2020 courseware is aligned to state and national standards and combines the best of master degree teachers w... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The EOS program is intended to serve the needs of three distinct groups of at risk high school students by providing a highly structured and supportive alternative instructional setting, an alternative instructional delivery system (on-line), and tiered (based on the degree of student needs) support... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Nationally accredited high school completion program that can be completed online or through correspondence. Online preparation courses in all subject matter.
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Excel Academy serves the community of Uvalde 9-12 grade students. The program is designed as a pro-active approach to dropout-prevention. It has now added a program that works with students 18-25 in order to provide one more chance to receive a High School Diploma. Excel provide student with academi... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) is a staff development program implemented by teachers of Grades 1 through 12. Teachers are provided seminars on ECRI techniques for reading and English instruction, effective scheduling of class time, and methods for identifying and correcting read... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Forest Lake Area Learning Center (ALC)is a Minnesota State Approved Alternative Program within the Forest Lake Area Schools. Student served are from the Forest Lake district as well as surrounding area, are in grades K-12+ and meet one of 11 state 'at risk' criteria. The ALC has programs runnin... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Job Resource & Development Center (JRDC) is a proven model for job and life skills programming. The JRDC program exposes students to the world of work. Through intensive preparation and training, follow-up mentoring, and part-time job placement, students acquire new skills and begin exploring ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Gateway Academy is a voluntary alternative school that provides opportunities toward academic completion of a high school diploma. GAHS serves students of the Mayfield City and Graves County School Districts and qualified candidates of Western Kentucky. Our goal is to work with students and their fa... |
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Prevention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Gateway to College, developed in 2000, is an innovative dual credit program to reconnect high school dropouts and student not on track to graduate with their education. This successful early college model allows colleges and school districts to work together applying K-12 funding to sustain Gateway... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The mission of Good Shepherd Services is to surround at-risk New York City youth and their families with a web of supports that promote a safe passage to self-sufficiency. To achieve our mission, we lead in the development of innovative youth development programs; provide quality, effective service... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The High School Graduation Coach initiative, championed by Governor Sonny Perdue during the 2006 legislative session, allows each of Georgia's high schools and middle schools to employ a coach. This is the first program of its kind to be implemented statewide. The coach's primary responsibility is t... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Graduation Odyssey Dropout Intervention/Prevention Program offers an organized, relationship based approach to drop out prevention that ensures all students graduate from high school with the knowledge and twenty first century skills to be both college and career ready. Using the Check and Conne... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| We believe that all students can learn and succeed in high school. With early identification of students at risk for academic failure, interventions are put into place to reduce the number of future dropouts. Students are provided many options and interventions to meet their individual educational n... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Hurst-Euless-Bedford (HEB) ISD, located in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas metroplex, felt the pain of truancy. Between 2000-2001 and 2007-2008 school years, unexcused absences rose from 39,955 to 42,773. This rise came hand in hand with a dramatic shift in the district's demographic. During the 2000-... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| In 2006, the Vermont Legislature established the HSCP to provide enrolled and un-enrolled youth, ages 16-21 inclusive, with educational services of the scope and rigor needed for the attainment of a high school diploma. This program allows a student, in collaboration with the Adult Education & Liter... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Puente Project is a national award-winning program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally underrepresented students. Its mission is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in four-year c... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| High Schools That Work is an effort-based school improvement initiative founded on the conviction that students can master rigorous academic and career/technical studies if school leaders and teachers create an environment that motivates students to make the effort to succeed. It is the nation's ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Descriptors: Academic Improvement, Adult Education, Alternative Education, Attendance/Truancy, Behavior Management/Discipline, Bi-lingual/ESL, Community Collaboration, Counseling/Advisories/Coaches, Credit Recovery, Extended-School/Summer Program, GED, Homeless, Literacy Development, Mentoring/Tutoring, Teen Pregnancy |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Internship Quest is a comprehensive program that enables young people to develop the skills and competencies required for the 21st century workforce. Internship Quest can expedite the time-consuming, labor-intensive process of building an internship program by offering schools a complete package of ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Invitational theory provides a common language for each of our school district's departments and all personnel to communicate and focus on every aspect of our educational program to ensure that we are creating an environment to help realize human potential. By creating an environment of trust, resp... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Jefferson County High School is an open entry-open exit high school that provides individualized instruction and a self-paced curriculum. We have learning sites at five locations within our county and provide classes at 8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in order to meet our students where and wh... |
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Prevention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| The local area also has operated a successful Youth Employment Center called the Job Corner that has served 2, 731 young people since it opened its doors in 2008. The Job Corner equips teens and young adults throughout Northern Virginia with the necessary tools, resources, and opportunities to succe... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Job Corps is a free education and training program that helps young people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good job. For eligible youth at least 16 years of age, Job Corps provides the all-around skills needed to succeed in a career and in life.
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The JAG Model consists of a comprehensive set of services designed to keep youth in school through graduation and improve the rate of success in achieving education and career goals. The ultimate goal is for participants to receive a high school diploma (or GED if a diploma is not feasible), secure... |
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Prevention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Career Plus makes it possible for students to attend the Career Technical Center all day. Students are transported from their home high school to the CTE Centers where they take their academics one-half the day and enroll into a Technical Program the other half of the day. Lunch is provided and tra... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Kane County Regional Office of Education offers a variety of programs designed to reduce the number of dropouts as well as dropout retrieval. Programs include truancy intervention/prevention, regional safe schools, homeless and the school program in juvenile detention facility. The truancy/int... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Students attending Riverside take courses that are approved by the Board of Education, leading to a L'Anse Creuse diploma. New high school course expectations, as outlined by the State of Michigan, have been integrated into Riverside's course offerings. These courses, taught using alternative teac... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Lamar Academy is home to a diverse group of at-risk students who have assumed a greater responsibility for their education by choosing to attend an accelerated, self-paced alternative school that offers flexible scheduling. Our student body is composed of Options High School and the 8th grade Trans... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| According to research referenced in the Arkansas Safe Schools Dropout Prevention Toolkit, the most successful programs in dropout prevention emphasize the bond and relationship betweens students and teachers. Tim Weiss, Director of the Springdale ALE, stated that "First, you have to win their heart... |
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| Longevity of Success is a program to help adults and youth achieve professional/personal success. Creating healthy communities at work and school using the latest research to get the greatest impact and engagement to build team and have long-term success in life.
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School (LMACS) is a public school catering to students who have left school prior to graduation and those at risk of dropping out. LMACS generally enrolls students 16 to 21 years of age. Graduates of the school must take and pass the 10th grade MCAS exams in math, E... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Mavericks High School Model is designed to provide superior timely student analytics and real-time continuous monitoring of student performance. Comprehensive data are gathered during the student admissions process and on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to better inform educational and... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The OnTrack program was initiated in 2002 by a MPS district administrator who recognized the need to coordinate existing services to reach students who were not taking advantage of these services (evening school, credit recovery, summer school.) The design of the program was adjusted to meet the req... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The LBC program is impacting students, teachers and parents alike. The positive environment surrounding the program is helping youth put a priority on education and personal goals for success. Students are comfortable working with certified teachers and youth experts aimed as helping them improve ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Migrant Education Advisor Program (MEAP) is a collaborative advising program in its thirteenth year of existence, between the Office of Migrant Education, the Masters in Counseling Program at Sonoma State University, and participating school districts. MEAP was modeled after a similar program... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| MECHS is an evening, self-paced, public, high school that grants regular Georgia High School Diplomas. In addition to our full-time students, we serve a population of students who take a class or classes with us part time and transfer the completed credit(s) back to the high school in which they ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| We are a nontraditional state chartered special school whose mission is to work with nontraditional students in an evening setting, with individualized instruction and positive reinforcement. High School graduation is the goal for all students.... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, a preventive rather than remedial at-risk youth program, targets participants who are unemployed, drug-free and law-free high-school dropouts, 16 to 18 years of age. The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is a community-based program that leads, train... |
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| Nogales High School designed its AIMS IDP project to leverage the grant funds to extend and expand existing programs and activities while providing additional support for students at risk, thus planning for sustainability. Therefore, the grant intersects with other programs and activities at the sch... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| NovaNET is a comprehensive online curriculum for middle school through adult students. Offers self-paced learning and any-time access with reporting for AYP, NCLB and progress measurement. Computer based, online delivery allows your investment to meet the diverse needs of your students including cr... |
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| The first phase of this program included training and facilitating school based Dropout Prevention Teams at the selected middle/high school, reviewing both district and school level policies, collecting and analyzing data. The second phase employed data driven decisions to select target areas,and a... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Descriptors: Academic Improvement, Alternative Education, Attendance/Truancy, Counseling/Advisories/Coaches |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| In 1982, the Oklahoma State Department of Education began pilot programs to address a growing concern for the number of high school student leaving without a diploma. By 1992, the state increased funding to alternative education programs across the state and established an evaluation requirement. ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Ombudsman is an alternative education program for at-risk students. Ombudsman gives middle and high students who are at risk of not graduating an accredited alternate route to earn a high school diploma. Ombudsman partners with public school districts to educate students in grades six through 12 who... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Opportunity School was recognized as a School of Promising Practices by Ohio's Governor Strickland in the commissioned report, "Supporting Student Success: A New Learning Day in Ohio," in August 2008. The Opportunity School program was developed in 1997 and served students in grades 7-10 that w... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Wokini's goal and purpose is to promote educational credit recovery, through character building, for students who have barriers to education. The objectives of the program are: 1) facilitate credit recovery and academic success, 2) explore educational opportunities for all students, 3) promote posit... |
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| Who Attends Options Academy of Fairfield? 1. Students seeking academic success through an online program 2. Students who have a need for work-based learning 3. Students who need credits for high school graduation 4. Students wishing to graduate early 5. Students with social/emotional concerns ... |
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| The Dropout Assessment and Prevention System (DAPS) is a comprehensive, module based system. It contains three components: the prediction and needs assessment of potential dropouts; consulting and training support to develop a multi-tiered intervention solution for the students who have been ident... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The PACE program is designed to meet the needs of students who are not finding success in the regular classroom by offering alternative pathways for graduation. It targets those students who are at a high risk of dropping out of regular school due to such things as attendance, pregnancy, poor perfo... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The National PASS Center (NPC) serves as a national clearinghouse and coordinating center for bringing PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) courses into alignment with current academic learning standards. Located in western New York as part of the Geneseo Migrant Center, the NPC is charged with o... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| PHASE 4 Learning Center, Inc. was founded in 2003 by four professional educators experienced in traditional, non-traditional and special education as a response to the problems they encountered with students who could not learn in a traditional public school setting. These students, who are at high ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| PLATO Learning, Inc., is a provider of computer-based and e-learning instruction, offering curricula in reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and life and job skills. A PLATO semester-long online course provides schools a way to deliver rigorous credit recovery, alternatives for... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Positive Action, a K-12 program, aims to promote character development, academic achievement, and social-emotional skills and to reduce disruptive and problem behavior. The program is based on the philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you think and do positive actions, and there is alway... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| Primavera is a free, accredited, distance-learning charter school serving at-risk students in urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the state of Arizona. This online high school provides the means for students to get a high school diploma (about 2000 students) or to take courses for credit rec... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Mission Statement for The Technology Academy: To provide an educational and career opportunity for middle and high school students, ages 13 to 21, who are out of high school without having earned a diploma, and/or who have decided they cannot succeed in a regular high school setting after attempting... |
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| The Pro-Vision All Male HISD Middle Charter School is an innovative single-sex middle school that targets young men in grades 5 through 8 who are experiencing academic difficulty, behavioral challenges, and other issues that have not allowed them to have success in a traditional school setting. Sinc... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Process Communication Model(R) shows educators how to reach and teach every student, how to communicate with each of six different personality types in their perceptions and preferred channels of communication. It gives educators a blueprint to individualize instruction to meet each student's m... |
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| The program shows teachers, mentors and parents how to individualize the way they communicate with, motivate, and establish relationships with every student. When they do this, students are more interested in school, are more motivated to learn, study, and stop their disruptive behaviors. They feel... |
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| The Project Discovery Transition System is a series of hands-on kits designed to provide middle, high school and young adults with a realistic approach to career education. Students of all levels experience over 72 career areas and over 3,000 specific validated job tasks with real tools of the trad... |
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| Project Reconnect was recognized by the National Center for School Engagement in its "21 Ways to Engage Students in School". The Project Reconnect program is designed to decrease truancy and increase graduation rates. The implementation of Project Reconnect has resulted in 68% reduction in truancy... |
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| The goal of the Pueblo City School Project Respect Program is to reduce the truancy rate by identifying the causes of truancy and implementing effective interventions in order to give all children the educational opportunities they deserve. Research indicates that truancy often leads to a life of d... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Puente Project is a national award-winning program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally underrepresented students. Its mission is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in four-year c... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| A Read Right consultant comes to your school and trains up to four members of your staff (certified teachers or paraprofessionals or a combination) to implement our methodology. Each tutor works with 5 students at a time. We provide everything needed to implement the program: an 850-book library ... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Reconnecting Youth (RY) is a proven, award-winning program that helps high-risk youth achieve in school and decrease drug use, anger, depression, and suicidal behavior. Designed for students aged 14-18, RY is a high school-based curriculum that uses small group skills training to enhance personal co... |
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| The Reconnection Services is a collaborative effort of many departments in Portland Public Schools, the Police Department, and an emerging group of community based social services. Reconnection Services is a streamlined referral process for students who are trying to reengage with their education. R... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| RENEW is designed to specifically address the needs of youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, including the need for self-determined planning and service provision, employment and other real-world experiences linked to learning, flexible service provision based on each students' needs, men... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| The Evening High School is designed to serve students aged 16-20, interested in obtaining a high school diploma; but, due to life circumstances, are unable to attend school during the day. The operational time-frame enables students to hold a job, meet family obligations and, upon meeting the requir... |
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| The Ripple Effects Whole Spectrum Intervention System (WSIS) is an integrated, technology-enabled system for effective, personalized, culturally competent, tiered interventions to address non-academic factors in school and life success. It is designed to enable youth-serving organizations to provide... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence  |
| In 2005-06, the school began a CTE program focusing on medical careers and added ninth and tenth grades. The ADE grant helped them to transition into the CTE program. The philosophy behind the change was connecting a diploma with a career and future earnings. Their focus now is to help students thin... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Youth Education and Employment Success (Ye2s) Center seeks to improve measurably the quality of life of Newark youth by expanding their educational, vocational, and employment opportunities. Under a unified collaboration among the City of Newark, Newark Public Schools, Communities In Schools, NJ... |
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| The dropout prevention grant at S.T.A.R. supplements its many ongoing activities and its purpose is twofold. The first is to provide research-based strategies for students in the S.T.A.R. Alternative High School to improve academic achievement and reduce dropout rates among young people with signifi... |
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Prevention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The SAFE Program is designed and yet flexible to do the following: Designed to initiate, monitor and adjust to the needs of over-aged and retained freshmen. Can be adopted to fit middle school / junior high models. No additional cost needed other than start-up. Provide students with hope and encoura... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The mission of the Sarah Pyle Academy for Academy Intensity is to provide a select student population with an innovative, challenging and technologically advanced non-traditional high school environment that will assist each student to achieve the ultimate goal of earning a high school diploma and b... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The School for Integrated Academics and Technologies (SIATech®) is an award-winning dropout recovery program. SIATech is a charter high school that excels at identifying student strengths and individualizing instruction to meet each student's needs and goals. The school's safe and caring setting ena... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Simon Youth Foundation has established joint ventures with public school districts, resulting in 25 Education Resource Centers (ERCs) operating in 13 states throughout the nation. Most of the ERCs are located in Simon malls, although a few are in other facilities such as malls formerly owned by Sim... |
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| The Fast Forward Center primarily serves youth, ages 16-21, who have previously dropped out of, or are not regularly attending high school. The goal of the Fast Forward Center is to return the youth to high school, help them achieve proficiency, earn a high school diploma, and have a positive place... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Southern Dropout Prevention Alliance has been instrumental in helping at-risk students graduate from high school and assisting schools with increasing graduation rates. Since 2005 85% of the 1024 students selected for our program were admitted to college. The other 13% were able to gain employme... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| Unique to our program is our dedication and approach to the dropout problem. Street School is the only alternative education school of choice in the Tulsa metropolitan area. Our comprehensive program includes both education and counseling; two critical ingredients for success that turn students ar... |
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| Mission Statement - The Success Watch Program is designed to support incoming 9th graders who have been historically at risk for failure in the traditional academic setting. They are described as the proverbial "kid who falls through the cracks" and silently fails. The mission of the programis to p... |
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| Rutgers Transitional Education and Employment Management (T.E.E.M.) Gateway is a "one-stop center" that provides education and employment assistance, juvenile mentoring, and referral/support services to the most disconnected youth of New Jersey. Key target areas include Essex, Mercer, Ocean, Passaic... |
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| The Academy is an alternative high school centrally located on the campus of the Charlotte Technical Center in Charlotte County, Florida. It serves students district wide that would otherwise not complete their high school experience. The motto for The Academy is "Whatever it Takes" for students to ... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Academy is for students who have not been, or will not be, able to earn a diploma from a regular high school. The Academy is a non-traditional school with a rigorous and accelerated curriculum. Students who attend our school may earn up to 2 high school credits or more every 10 weeks. The Acad... |
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Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| The Academy located at Hickory Hollow is a Simon Youth Academy. It is a non-traditional school for students 17-21 who would like to earn a high school diploma. The Academy is a school with a rigorous and accelerated curriculum. Students who attend the school may earn up to 2 high school credits or m... |
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| The ultimate goal of the Diploma Project is to reduce dropout rates in this pilot program of six highest need high schools and selected corresponding feeder middle schools. The Diploma Project is designed to focus on specific, measurable outcomes for the identified participants at critical transiti... |
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| The Georgetown School is an alternative education center that provides a supportive educational environment for students (in grades 6 through 12) that are at-risk for academic failure due to issues of truancy, discipline, and poor decision making skills. The Georgetown School utilizes strong communi... |
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| The School Archive Project is simple, inexpensive ($2 per 8th grade student), and helps focus students in a credible manner onto their own futures. We now have it at both the middle school and high school level. The high school involved is setting historic graduation records due to this effort and ... |
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| TLC @ Neshaminy a public alternative school serving Neshaminy School District.The program is relationship based. Students generally exhibit one or more at-risk factors. Approximately 15% of the students have IEPS. Several Once identified and after RTI has been implemented, the social worker presen... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| In New York City, there are nearly 140,000 young people who have dropped out or are significantly off-track for graduation. Good Shepherd Services' transfer high schools offer these young people a second chance to complete their educations. Based on more than 25 years of work with this population,... |
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| Ulysses Career Learning Academy is a charter school that was started to address the high drop-out rate in our small city. Our academic classes are taught through a computer program with teachers in the classroom to monitor students and help them when they have difficulty understanding the content. ... |
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Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence  |
| Union Alternative School serves 120 at-risk students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is completely voluntary, and students must be willing to consistently abide by a student contract in order to maintain their positions in the program. It is not a punishment program. Instead, it is intended to... |
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| This program is basically designed to aid the young men and encourage academics, positive behavior and attendance through incentives, Paine College student involvement and many other contributing factors. The Judge Not Program sponsored by area Judges like Judges Caryle Overstreet, Carl Brown, Willi... |
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| Valley High School was recently awarded the distinction of being named a "high-achieving turnaround" school by the federal government. The campus id redesigned into small learning communities with each group of students having the same core group of teachers who work as a team to address the needs o... |
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| The Washington State Achievers (WSA) program was created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a model that integrates high school reform, early college awareness, and college advising, mentoring, scholarships, and student supports. This program targeted 16 high schools in Washington State... |
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Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence  |
| The Wayne Enrichment Center is an alternative program for the secondary schools in the MSD of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, Indiana. The program has two components - a junior high section (7th - 8th) and a high school (9th -12th) section. The 7th/8th grade program serves 40 students as an altern... |
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| Our program serves 210 students including teen parents, adjudicated youth, credit deficient youth, youth with mental health, and youth with AODA issues. 60+% of our students are minority, 95+% receive free or reduced lunch. We offer programs for credit recovery, service learning, community outreach,... |
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| A team approach is the key to this positive program. Organizational change with systematic changes occurring within the existing system. A team meets every Monday morning and reviews every students' attendance, students who have withdrawn, students who have had discipline referrals. Key Question:... |
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| The Wings Academy at Flagstaff High School (FHS) targets entering freshmen who are academically at risk. The program offers academic and behavioral interventions during part of the school day, while maintaining the students' freedom to explore a wide range of course offerings outside the Academy. Fl... |
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| YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high sch... |
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| YMC's proven group and 1:1 mentoring, extensive staff monitoring, life skills workshops, and parental involvement produces exemplary outcomes for our youth, such as improvement in school grades, graduating from high school, problem solving and communication skills, self-esteem, and staying away from... |