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This study is designed to identify vocational education practices which reduce
absenteeism and dropout rates. It does so by making case studies of successful
and unsuccessful vocational programs, using data from New York City programs
with high and low absenteeism and dropout rates. Visits will also be made to
vocational programs in three districts in other parts of the United
States.
These results, as well as results from other data analysis of New York City
career magnet schools, will be disseminated and used for development work with
federal officials and with local and state officials in New York and
elsewhere.
A short report summarizing the research on dropouts will be produced.
If one or more New York Times articles result from the study, we will
set up a system of providing callers with brief abstracts of the research and
advise them to purchase reports from NCRVE. We will accept invitations to
speak at conferences. We also will do our best to use federal agencies as
resources for dissemination. New York City officials are sometimes asked to
provide assistance to other school districts in developing lottery-based
admissions systems for their magnet schools; we may accompany officials on some
of their visits to other school districts.
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