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Direct linkLewis, Anne C. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this paper, the author discusses the recent National Center for Education Statistics study of students from the 1998 eighth-grade who had dropped out. The study found a surprisingly high percentage of these students had managed to obtain further education. The study defined a dropout as a student absent from school for four consecutive weeks or…
Descriptors: Dropouts, National Surveys, Grade 8, Attendance Patterns
