Dropouts in America : confronting the graduation rate crisis

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Orfield, Gary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2004.
Subjects:
High school dropouts > United States.
High school attendance > United States.
Dropout behavior, Prediction of.
School improvement programs > United States.
Educational change > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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