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Direct linkMenzer, Jeffrey D.; Hampel, Robert L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Dropouts pay a steep price for leaving high school without their diplomas. In terms of wages, unemployment rates, and career mobility, the grim statistics have been lamented for decades. Society also suffers--more crime and welfare, fewer tax dollars, and lower voter turnout. Not every dropout faces a bleak future. But on balance, the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Potential Dropouts, Dropouts, Wages
Funk, Hal D. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "Illinois Schools Journal, XLIX, (Summer 1969), 130-133.
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Dropouts, Failure
Bachman, Jerald; And Others – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Article asks the question Should the Anti-Dropout Campaign" be Curtailed? Suggests that dropping out of high school is overrated as a problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Dropout Research, Dropouts
