Dropping Out : : Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It /

Dropping Out : : Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It / / Russell W. Rumberger.

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The vast majority of kids in the developed world finish high school-but not in the United States. More than a million kids drop out every year, around 7,000 a day, and the numbers are rising. Dropping Out offers a comprehensive overview by one of the country's leading experts, and provides answ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Rumberger, Russell W.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 10 line illustrations, 10 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Varying Requirements and Pathways for Completing High School
  • 3 The Nature and Extent of the Dropout Crisis
  • 4 The Individual Consequences of Dropping Out
  • 5 The Social Consequences of Dropping Out
  • 6 Understanding Why Students Drop Out
  • 7 Predictors of Dropping Out
  • 8 Learning from Past Efforts to Solve the Dropout Crisis
  • 9 What Should Be Done to Solve the Dropout Crisis
  • NOTES. INDEX
  • Notes
  • Index

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