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1.
Culture, Politics, and Irish School Dropouts: Constructing Political Identities
Contributors:
Publisher:
Bergin & Garvey 1995
Subjects:
Dropouts--Ireland--Attitudes
Dropouts--Ireland--Interviews
Group Identity--Ireland
Politics And Education--Ireland
Education--Social Aspects--Ireland
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...highly in IQ tests and showing high ability, left school atage 16 or earlier (cited...that the geneticexplanation of school "failure" is not a credible or...explanation and justificationof why early school-leavers drop out of school and...
2.
Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure
Contributors:
Publisher:
Praeger 1996
Subjects:
High School Dropouts--United States
Education, Secondary--Social Aspects--United States
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...regular diplomasthan for other dropouts.Unfortunately, the expansion...of labor market problems that high school dropouts face. Economicresearch suggests...recipient was nobetter off than high school dropouts without alternative credentials...
3.
A School for Healing: Alternative Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Students
Contributors:
Publisher:
Peter Lang 1999
Subjects:
Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies
Socially Handicapped Youth--Education--United States--Case Studies
High School Dropouts--Education--United States--Case Studies
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...do so.Disruptive dropouts are low-achieving...theirfrustration at lack of school success. These students...expelled from the public school classroom andare labeled pushouts.High academic achievers...rigidschool rules.In-school dropouts are those students...
4.
Adolescent Boys in High School: A Psychological Study of Coping and Adaptation
Contributors:
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1979
Subjects:
Adaptability (Psychology)
High School Students--Social Conditions
Social Interaction
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...involvement they experience in present school life(Douvan &Gold...intimacy of con­tacts of high school students with dropouts were associated with eventual...These studies indicate that high school students are more likely to...
5.
The Nongraded High School
Contributors:
Publisher:
Prentice-Hall 1963
Subjects:
Melbourne (Fla.). High School
Nongraded Schools
Education, Secondary
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...Techniques Pertinent to Modern Counseling: A study of problems of our society as theyrelate to school disciplinary problems, potential school dropouts,and techniques for dealing with them.The Hebrew Language and People: The areas of study...
6.
Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban High School
Contributors:
Publisher:
New York University Press 2008
Subjects:
Educational Psychology
High School Students--United States
Urban Schools--United States
Classroom Management--United States
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...201CAre Students Failing School or Are Schools FailU...Students? Class Cutting in High School.” Journal of...M. (1991). Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School.Albany: SUNY Press...
7.
High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 1982
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
High School Students--United States--Statistics
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...dropouts is probably high in all sectors,because...assumption about where the dropouts camefrom in the test...to those schoolswith high proportions of dropouts (in this case...Standardized toPublic School Sophomore, and Dropout...
8.
The Bright Boys: A History of Townsend Harris High School
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 2000
Subjects:
Townsend Harris High School (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)--History
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...the current four-year high school offers a much broader...the other city specialty high schools with a range of...standards. As in the old school, the demands on students make for camaraderie. Dropouts are almost zero. The...
10.
The First Year out: Understanding American Teens after High School
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press 2007
Subjects:
High School Graduates--United States
High School Seniors--United States
College Freshmen--United States
High School Graduates--United States--Psychology
High School Graduates--Employment--United States
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...ask students about their high school experience whileit was...schedules during the school term.Few studies of...teens who graduated from high schoolbetween 1995 and...commonalitiesamong panel dropouts were that they belonged...
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