Dropping out why students drop out of high school and what can be done about it /

Main Author: Rumberger, Russell W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10518209
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The varying requirements and pathways for completing high school
  • The nature and extent of the dropout crisis
  • The individual consequences of dropping out
  • The social consequences of dropping out
  • Understanding why students drop out
  • Predictors of dropping out
  • Learning from past efforts to solve the dropout crisis
  • What should be done to solve the dropout crisis.