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Helping Students Graduate: An Examination Of The Services Provided By A Dropout Prevention Program, Caren Putzu
Helping Students Graduate: An Examination Of The Services Provided By A Dropout Prevention Program, Caren Putzu
Theses and Dissertations
The Alliance for Excellent Education (2011) estimates every 26 seconds in America, a student drops out of school. Numerous intervention and prevention approaches have been implemented to reduce the incidents of school dropout. One program, Communities In Schools (CIS), has shown promise in impacting the issue of school dropout by attending to both academic and non-academic factors at play in influencing a student’s risk for dropping out. The primary aim of this secondary data analysis was to develop an increased understanding of CIS services, to explore whether service provision varies systematically in relation to student outcomes and student characteristics, and …