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Books on: school age dropouts

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Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure

Book by Sherman Dorn; Praeger Publishers, 1996

Subjects:

Education, Secondary--Social Aspects--United States, High School Dropouts--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...concern over high school dropouts by seeing it as a label for variation from this age-specific norm of high...creation of the word "dropout" thus shadowed the developing norm of high school graduation. The second...without a pension fund or dropouts without schools. In the case of dropping...the language of the dropout problem in the 1960s...
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Schooling for Success: Preventing Repetition and Dropout in Latin American Primary Schools

Book by Laura Randall, Joan B. Anderson; M. E. Sharpe, 1999

Subjects:

Education And State--Latin America--Congresses, Education, Elementary--Latin America--Curricula--Congresses, Education, Elementary--Social Aspects--Latin America--Congresses, Elementary School Dropouts--Latin America--Prevention--Congresses, Grade Repetition--Latin America--Prevention--Congresses, Schools--Decentralization--Latin America--Congresses, Teaching--Latin America--Congresses

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Heterogeneity of student age and older-than-average...the workforce. Early dropout from school . In Chile, dropout from school begins at...sixteen 12 percent . Dropouts have usually repeated...them than continuing in school with such poor results...000 in the four middle school grades. Social inequality...especially deficient in schools located in rural and...
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Culture, Politics, and Irish School Dropouts: Constructing Political Identities

Book by G. Honor Fagan; Bergin & Garvey, 1995

Subjects:

Dropouts--Ireland--Attitudes, Dropouts--Ireland--Interviews, Education--Social Aspects--Ireland, Group Identity--Ireland, Politics And Education--Ireland

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and aimed at the pre-school age group. In Britain, educational...stimulus for learning, the schools would compensate, particularly at a pre-school stage. The equivalent of...strategies to prevent failure at school in disadvantaged areas...
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A School for Healing: Alternative Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Students

Book by Rosa L. Kennedy, Jerome H. Morton; Peter Lang, 1999

Subjects:

Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies, High School Dropouts--Education--United States--Case Studies, Socially Handicapped Youth--Education--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the needs of the dropout/pushout.The following categories of dropouts/pushouts Kronick...they attain the age to legally do so...resistance to rigid school rules. 4. In-school dropouts are those...The disruptive dropouts were those students...of Brook County Schools. She created a...dealing with the dropout/pushout population...
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Middle School and the Age of Adjustment: A Guide for Parents

Book by Eileen Bernstein; Bergin & Garvey, 2002

Subjects:

Adolescent Psychology--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Middle School Education--Parent Participation--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...children can feel overwhelmed. Children from single-parent families represent the largest percentages of tardiness, truancy, dropouts, and expulsions. There can also be more risk-taking behaviors, including sexual promiscuity and drug and alcohol abuse...

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Journal Articles on: school age dropouts

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Academic and Participation Profiles of School-Age Dropouts with and without Disabilities

Journal article by David Scanlon, Daryl F. Mellard; Exceptional Children, Vol. 68, 2002

Subjects:

Academic achievement--Analysis, Child psychology--Research, Disabled children--Education, Dropouts--Analysis, Learning disabled--Social aspects, Social interaction--Psychological aspects

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...samples span only ages 16-21, the data...1987) did find school dropouts are also likely...minority males in urban schools, are particularly likely to be dropouts (Schwartz, 1995). DROPOUT STATUS AND POST-SCHOOL SUCCESS GED Attainment...
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Dropouts or Leftouts? School Leavers in Canada

Journal article by Heather-Jane Robertson; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, 2006

Subjects:

Automobile drivers' licenses--Management, Drivers' licenses--Management, High school dropouts--Management, Teenagers--Laws, regulations and rules, Youth--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...okay" to work hard at school. Twenty-five percent of dropouts (compared with 9% of...been "kicked out of school," 23% reported skipping...their behavior. By the age of 15, future dropouts...social lives of their schools, a disengagement that...in activities outside school, including sports...
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The Labor Market Problems of Today's High School Dropouts

Journal article by James P. Markey; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 111, 1988

Subjects:

High school dropouts--Employment, High school graduates--Employment, Unemployment--Statistics

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...discussion of the different dropout measures and the debate surrounding the dropout problem, see Chester...Jr., "The high school dropout puzzle," The Public...22; and "School Dropouts: The Extent and Nature...persons 16 to 24 years of age in the civilian noninstitutional...
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The Identification of High-School Dropouts Identified as Learning Disabled: Evaluating the Utility of a Discriminant Analysis Function

Journal article by Larry Kortering, Norris Haring, Alan Klockars; Exceptional Children, Vol. 58, 1992

Subjects:

Discriminant analysis--Usage, High school dropouts--Demographic aspects, Learning disabled--Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...studies have portrayed the school dropout with respect...among 593 former high-school students from the Battlecreek, Michigan public schools, and found that the rate of school dropout was three times...literature on school dropout and cited a study of...district which found that dropouts had a median reading...scored below the median age level in reading and...
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Finishing High School: Alternative Pathways and Dropout Recovery

Journal article by John H. Tyler, Magnus Lofstrom; The Future of Children, Vol. 19, 2009

Subjects:

Academic failure--Prevention, Education, Secondary--Evaluation, High school dropouts--Evaluation, Secondary education--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...well U.S. schools are graduating...student who left a school or a district...graduates with their age cohort. Of...counted as "dropouts" without giving...data system, a dropout becomes a dropout...in reducing dropout rates or improving...quality of life of dropouts. Conclusion...solutions to the dropout problem is one...Americas high schools. A first step...numbers to public school students. These...leaving-age students is...

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Magazine Articles on: school age dropouts

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Protective Factors for Inner-city Adolescents at Risk of School Dropout: Family Factors and Social Support

Magazine article by Maureen T. Lagana; Children & Schools, Vol. 26, October 2004

Subjects:

African Americans, At risk youth, Community support, Families & family life, School dropouts

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...of School Dropout: Family Factors...in magnet schools, complete...income and school dropout is...a school-age poverty rate...typical of schools attended by...address the school dropout problem has...High school dropouts have a higher...of school dropout. Variables included age, gender...times skipped school in the past...different schools attended this...
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School Dropouts

Magazine article by John Richards; Inroads, Summer 2009

Subjects:

Cultural change, Education, Francophones, Minority & ethnic groups, Provinces, Rural schools, School administration, School attendance, School dropout programs, School systems, Secondary school students, Single sex education, Success, Urban areas

Collections: Education, Entire Library

School Dropouts by John Richards...about the high dropout rate among francophone...tion at an older age. As of the 2006...are among those ages 25-34. Figure...people in that age range without high...recorded higher dropout rates than Quebec...concern about school dropouts merited? Sceptics...at all. Their school attendance is often erratic and schools may be less than...
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An Ecological and Developmental Perspective on Dropout Risk Factors in Early Adolescence: Role of School Social Workers in Dropout Prevention Efforts

Magazine article by Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni; Children & Schools, Vol. 30, January 2008

Subjects:

At risk students, Behavior, Changes, Community, Crisis intervention, Learning, No Child Left Behind Act 2001-US, Parents & parenting, Problems, Risk factors, Role models, School dropouts, Secondary schools, Social work, Social workers, Urban schools

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...adolescents at risk of school dropout and can develop and advocate...efforts targeted at this age group and aimed at multilevel...ADOLESCENCE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL Dropout prevention approaches...broad-based, within-school programs; to alternative school settings separate from traditional schools; to a communitywide...
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Integrating High School Dropouts: the Experience of Quebec's Cfer Work/study Program

Magazine article by Nadia Rousseau, Ghislain Samson, Karen Tetreault; Inroads, Summer 2006

Subjects:

Access to education, Learning, School dropouts, Skills, Students, Teaching, Vocational education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...rate for high school graduates increased...while for high school dropouts the increase...to build more schools and increase...mandatory education age. But the persistently high dropout rate shows that lack of schools is not the problem...know about the dropouts, more mandatory...complete high school become competent...
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The Effectiveness of a Solution-focused, Public Alternative School for Dropout Prevention and Retrieval

Magazine article by Cynthia Franklin, Calvin L. Streeter, Johnny S. Kim, Stephen J. Tripodi; Children & Schools, Vol. 29, July 2007

Subjects:

Alternative education, Data bases, Effectiveness studies, Extracurricular activities, Intervention, Public schools, School districts, School dropouts, Secondary school students, Social workers, Teachers, Vocational education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...SFBT techniques in schools (Corcoran Stephenson...effectiveness in reducing dropout rates and retrieving high school dropouts. School-based research...of using the cohort dropout rate as an outcome measure for high-risk dropout youths entering alternative schools. The larger question...should be considered dropouts rather than successful high school graduates if they...

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Newspaper Articles on: school age dropouts

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Schools Have Staying Power Alternate Approach May Be Key to Lower Dropout Rate

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...student has to stay in school until theyre 17, the...students to stay in school, he suggests it also means anyone quitting school before age 17 simply isnt logged...in 10 American high schools, including some in suburban Chicago, as "dropout factories" for churning out about as many dropouts as they do actual graduates...
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School Dropouts Are Still among Nation's Highest

Newspaper article by Vaishali Honawar; The Washington Times, November 17, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School dropouts are still among...Honawar Student dropout rates in the Districts public schools fell between...incentives to find dropouts. It is not...country. Public school officials in...and control dropout rates in schools, ranging from...citys public schools, said the...causes for dropout rates. "We...among middle school and high school...over these age groups. Meanwhile...
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Chef Rights Wrong as High School Dropout

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 28, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Wrong as High School Dropout. Felipe Iniguez Millrose...something new." A high school dropout, Iniguez is...degree in the spring. "School is very important because...I dropped out of high school to go to work. When you are making money at that age, you think it is right...
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The Bullied School Dropout Who Has Turned into One of Britain's Great Oscar Hopes; JUDE'S FIGHT FOR FAME

Newspaper article by Barbara Davies, Athalie Matthews; The Mirror (London, England), March 25, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Bullied School Dropout Who Has Turned into One...his state comprehensive school because, he says, he...Then he went to a public school, where he featured in...he dropped out of that school, too, and single...marvellous. In 1984, at the age of 11, Jude went on...
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Education through Service; A Beginning to the End of High School Dropouts

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2008

Subjects:

Teenagers, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of High School Dropouts. Byline: Alma...become high school dropouts. Numerous efforts...to address the dropout crisis and improve...to keep them in school. Their futures...in our nations schools. However, in...sometimes people my age have a better understanding...said that their schools offered these classes...dropping out of school. Our young people...leaders of all ages and from every...

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