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Retaining Boys in School Developing a Model of Intervention

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29-64
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January 2000
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The Youth Development Programme of the YMCA in Kingston, Jamaica, has been successful in delivering remedial and continuing education to at-risk boys who have dropped out of the formal school system. What is particularly remarkable about this two-year programme is the very low dropout rate and very high rate of completion among boys who had dropped out of the formal school system. The clear implication is that the YMCA programme has been able to address the needs and aspirations of 12- to 14-year-old boys in ways that the schools have not. This raises the possibility that there are lessons to be learned from this nonformal education programme that can be applied in the formal school system.

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