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The Complexity of Non-Completion: Being Pushed or Pulled to Drop out of High School
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Bradley, Christen L.; Renzulli, Linda A. – Social Forces, 2011
Using a model of student dropout with only two possible outcomes--"still in school" or "dropout"--hides the complex reasons that students leave high school. We offer a model with three outcomes: in school, pushed out or pulled out. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Survey, we find that for black students, differences in SES explain…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, White Students, High School Students