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Books on: school dropout

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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

...local activists used dropout statistics as well...Project on School Dropouts to criticize school policies. Kelly Miller...Against Segregated Schools, spoke before the...proportion staying in school was often called the "holding power" of schools, and the unaccounted...proportion was called the dropout rate. The NEA Project on School Dropouts used this technique...
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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

...Table 11.2 shows the total dropout rate of students passed and...between the primary and middle schools are still high, indicating...inspite of having passed due to school or parents deciding students...to more developed towns and schools deciding that the child is...Seventy-two percent of a school cohort finishes fourth grade...
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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

...social, and work that result from early school-leaving. The conversations on work...of the lived social relations of early school-leaving. The dialogues tell us that...a scene in which we can identify early school-leaving as one condition for establishing...
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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

...meet the needs of the dropout/pushout.The following categories of dropouts/pushouts Kronick...school rules. 4. In-school dropouts are those...superintendent of Brook County Schools. She created a grant...is to show how the school evolved over a ten...in dealing with the dropout/pushout population...as superintendent of schools, to provide a place...complete their high school diploma. Dr. Dale...
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The Path to Dropping Out: Evidence for Intervention

Book by Melissa Roderick; Auburn House, 1993

Subjects:

Dropout Behavior, Prediction Of--Longitudinal Studies, Dropouts--Massachusetts--Fall River--Longitudinal Studies, Grade Repetition--Massachusetts--Fall River--Longitudinal Studies, High School Dropouts--Massachusetts--Fall River--Longitudinal Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Statistics, such as the High School and Beyond Survey. These data sets provide estimates of dropout rates among nationally representative...their sophomore year in high school. Dropout rates from High School and Beyond do not provide us...

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Journal Articles on: school dropout

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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

...to keep potential dropouts enrolled and involved...secondchance option for school dropouts, it has a secondary focus on dropout "prevention." (11) Schools have strong incentives...the number of school dropouts is also reflected...accountability systems for schools and school districts. A first...about how to affect dropout decisions is to have...
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Dropout Prevention in the Middle Grades

Journal article by Jolie Ziomek-Daigle, P. Gayle Andrews; Middle School Journal, Vol. 40, 2009

Subjects:

Asian Americans, Coaches & managers, Educational leadership, Educational psychology, Global economy, Hispanics, Learning, Middle schools, Research & development--R&D, Risk factors, School counseling, School dropouts, Secondary school students

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and were certified as school counselors in the state...Their experience in the schools ranged from 1 to 16...interventions for curbing the dropout rate The results of...Internet. In some schools, another result has...Based on the middle school dropout prevention program...and Herzog (2007), schools can adopt a three...
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High Suspension Schools and Dropout Rates for Black and White Students

Journal article by Talisha Lee, Dewey Cornell, Anne Gregory, Xitao Fan; Education & Treatment of Children, Vol. 34, 2011

Subjects:

Dropouts--Analysis, High schools--Demographic aspects, High schools--Statistics, Public schools--Demographic aspects, Public schools--Statistics, Suspension (Punishment)--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...to ensure that all schools in Virginia understood...classify students as dropouts. Dropout rates for this study...07 and 2007-08 school years. In order to...About 40% of the dropouts in this study were...students and 39% of the dropouts were Black students...correlations. Whole-school dropout rates were positively correlated with the schools proportion of minority...
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School Characteristics Related to High School Dropout Rates

Journal article by Christine A. Christle, Kristine Jolivette, Nelso C Michael; Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 28, 2007

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High school dropouts--Research

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...characteristics of high schools with low dropout rates compared to high schools with high dropout rates. Stage 1 In addition to dropout rate (i.e., the total number of dropouts divided by the total school enrollment for the academic year...
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The School Counselor's Role in School Dropout Prevention

Journal article by Susan Williams White, F. Donald Kelly; Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 88, 2010

Subjects:

Academic achievement--Management, High school dropouts--Psychological aspects, High school dropouts--Social aspects, High school dropouts--Statistics

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...M. (1989). Preventing school dropouts through classroom guidance. Elementary School Guidance Counseling, 24...Dropping out of middle school: A multilevel analysis of students and schools. American Educational Research...1994). Special projects for dropout prevention. The Vocational...

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Magazine Articles on: school dropout

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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

...inschool and out-of-school behaviors that relate to later school dropout. This may be partly...social identities in schools that stand in contrast...they disengage from the school setting.Thus, the effects of employment on dropout appear to depend on the link between schools and relevant, meaningful...
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The Problem with Doomsday Dropout Data

Magazine article by Lawrence Mishel; School Administrator, Vol. 63, September 2006

Subjects:

High school dropouts--Forecasts and trends, Schools--Forecasts and trends, Schools--United States, United States--Economic aspects, United States--Educational aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...immigrant enters high school and that those not...should be considered dropouts. By doing so, Greene...This is absurd. High schools have problems, but...who got GEDs as high school graduates, but we...even a 20 percent dropout rate is too high...Dictate In truth, the dropout problem is concentrated...20 percent of high schools. Dropouts are only 3 percent...recipients as high school completers.) Yet...
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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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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

...Roderick, 1993). Dropout rates are much higher...excluding those in magnet schools, complete their education...between low income and school dropout is especially...associated with high dropout ratesrigid rules...interest-are typical of schools attended by low-income...adequately address the school dropout problem has resulted...costs. High school dropouts have a higher probability...
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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

...those likely to drop out of school. Potential dropouts tend...they turn up at all. Their school attendance is often erratic and schools may be less than diligent...the question, concern about dropouts is merited. First, because very high dropout rates among significant minority...because failing to complete high school has dire economic and social...

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Newspaper Articles on: school dropout

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Anti-School Dropout Project Launched inIN Cebu

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 14, 2010

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Elementary school students

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

Anti-School Dropout Project Launched inIN Cebu...among poor performing elementary school pupils. The CommuniTeach Program...improvement of learning by elementary school kids, particularly those in public schools, belonging to the bottom percentile...
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Education Advocates Target Zero Dropout Rate in Public Schools

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 11, 2011

Subjects:

Education, Elementary school students, Local government, National Education Summit (United States)

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

...Education Advocates Target Zero Dropout Rate in Public Schools. MANILA, Philippines...local government officials, school administrators, and other...the dropout rates in public schools in their localities. Synergeia...not just improving public school childrens performance. He...
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School Dropout Rate Back on the Rise

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 17, 2005

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

...years, Oregon high school dropout rates bumped up...Education. Oregon Schools Superintendent...uptick on tight school budgets, which...increase in high school dropouts will continue until...weve made in the dropout rate. These are...disinvestment in our public schools." Statewide...
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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

...grade and school to school, will help educators...paint a more accurate dropout and graduation rate...on re- enrolling dropouts. In Indiana, task force research shows, schools saw their graduation...students to stay in school, he suggests it also means anyone quitting school before age 17 simply...in 10 American high schools, including some in suburban Chicago, as "dropout factories" for churning out about as many dropouts as they do actual...
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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...and 1998-99 school years, but...2000. But dropout numbers put...incentives to find dropouts. It is not...country. Public school officials in...and control dropout rates in schools, ranging from...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school dropout

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Foreman, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

FOREMAN, GEORGE 1948 , American boxer, b. Marshall, Tex. A high school dropout, Foreman learned to box in the Job Corps. In 1968 he was the Olympic heavyweight gold medalist. Foreman beat Joe Frazier for...
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Basquiat, Jean-Michel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...he was a 1980s art star whose rise and fall were rapid, dramatic, and emblematic of the era. A rebel, high-school dropout, and part of the downtown New York scene, he was influenced by the violence of street life, the variety of African...

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