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Fine, Michelle – Equity and Choice, 1991
Research on dropouts at an urban, comprehensive New York City high school found a complex politics of "discharge" and low awareness on the part of students and parents of legal entitlement to education, which allowed 66 percent of a ninth grade cohort to dropout without comment or concern. (JB)
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Educational Legislation
