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Ascertaining The Long-Term Effectiveness Of Interventions For At Risk Students Using Follow-Up Study Data Of Mounds View Area Learning Center Graduates, Beth A. Dixon Jan 1995

Ascertaining The Long-Term Effectiveness Of Interventions For At Risk Students Using Follow-Up Study Data Of Mounds View Area Learning Center Graduates, Beth A. Dixon

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This study examined data to determine the long-term effectiveness of interventions at the Mounds View Area Learning Center (MVALC), an alternative school for at risk students in Shoreview, Minnesota. Interventions, structural, curricular, and personnel modifications to traditional educational approaches, are designed to retain and graduate at risk students. Two questions were posed: l) Have at risk students been able to make a successful transition frorn high school to post-high; and 2) Were the interventions used in helping them succeed in high school helpful after high school? Questionnaires were administered to subjects who graduated between September 1990 and June 1993, having …