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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
The study provides an overview of what national surveys and the literature say about school dropouts, defined as persons who are neither enrolled in school nor high school graduates. For the last decade, the dropout rate for youth age 16-24 has remained roughly the same, about 13-14 percent. Hispanics, Blacks, and economically and educationally…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Continuation Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs
