Dropping out : why students drop out of high school and what can be done about it / / Russell W. Rumberger.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Rumberger, Russell W.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 380 p. :; ill.

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.