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Swartz, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Students classified as emotionally disturbed receiving special education services will drop out of school at a rate of 56% nationwide, and one out of three will be incarcerated within 3 years of leaving school. This study provides school personnel and clinicians with new information regarding underlying attachment difficulties and aggression in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Change, School Personnel, Special Education
Hodge, Gail D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Prior studies have shown that students who are the first in their families to attend college fail to persist in college more so than their continuing-generation (CG) counterparts do. Prior research on this phenomenon has helped to identify various factors that contribute to the lower college persistence of first-generation (FG) students. For…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Grade Point Average, Income, Academic Persistence