Dropouts in America : confronting the graduation rate crisis / edited by Gary Orfield.

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Other Authors: Orfield, Gary
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2004.
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300 |a 306 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
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505 0 |a Losing our future: minority youth left out / Gary Orfield -- Sketching a portrait of public high school graduation: who graduates? who doesn't? / Christopher B. Swanson -- Graduation rate accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act and the disparate impact on students of color / Daniel J. Losen -- Locating the dropout crisis: which high schools produce the nations dropouts? / Robert Balfanz and Nettie E. Legters -- High school dropout, race/ethnicity, and social background from the 1970s to the 1990s / Robert M. Hauser, Solon J. Simmons, and Devah I. Pager -- The national dropout data collection system: history and the search for consistency / Phillip Kaufman -- Why students drop out of school / Russell W. Rumberger -- Graduation and dropout rates after implementation of high-stakes testing in Chicago's elementary schools: a close look at students most vulnerable to dropping out / Elaine M. Allensworth -- Accountability and the grade 9 to 10 transition: the impact on attrition and retention rates / Lisa Abrams and Walt Haney -- Whatever happened to the class of 2000? the timing of dropout in Philadelphia's schools / Ruth Curran Neild and Elizabeth Farley -- Preventing dropout: use and impact of organizational reforms designed to ease the transition to high school / Kerri A. Kerr and Nettie E. Legters -- What can be done to reduce the dropout rate? / Russell W. Rumberger -- Interpreting the evidence from recent federal evaluations of dropout-prevention programs: the state of scientific research / Mark Dynarski -- Essential components of high school dropout-prevention reforms / James M. McPartland and Will J. Jordan. 
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