Who Drops Out of High School and Why? Findings from a National Study


by Ruth B. Ekstrom, Margaret E. Goertz, Judith M. Pollack & Donald A. Rock — 1986

Using data from High School and Beyond, a national longitudinal study of American high school students, the authors investigated who drops out, why one student drops out but not another, what dropouts do while peers remain in school, and what impact dropping out has on gains in tested achievement. (Source: ERIC)


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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 87 Number 3, 1986, p. 356-373
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 688, Date Accessed: 5/26/2013 2:50:48 AM

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