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Wheelock, Anne – Equity and Choice, 1986
Recent literature suggests it is not students' backgrounds, but schools' response to students' backgrounds that determines students' success in school. School practices and policies adopted in response to student performance in attendance, academics, and behavior also have a significant impact on students' decision to leave school before…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, High Risk Students
Silvestri, Kenneth L. – Equity and Choice, 1986
Emphasis on basis skills, standardized testing and curriculum standardization in alternative education programs creates the same conditions that originally lead students to drop out. Flexibility of alternative education programs is important. These nontraditional programs should exist as part of the many options that can meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Equal Education
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
