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Lieberman, Janet E. – 1979
Designed as an alternative program to reduce absenteeism in four high schools in the Bronx, a career education and academic upgrading experiment placed sixty ninth graders in a special area of Bronx Community College. The students, recruited from among disadvantaged potential dropouts (mostly blacks and Hispanics), attended half-day sessions at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks
