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Peer reviewedLichtenstein, Stephen – Exceptional Children, 1993
In-depth, structured interviews were conducted over a two-year period with four young adults (previously identified as learning disabled) who had dropped out of high school. Their stories cast doubt on the idea that dropouts are necessarily "failures" but suggest serious shortcomings in the secondary education programing and the transition…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Case Studies, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
