Literature on truancy shows strong relationship between school attendance problems and eventual withdrawal from school. On the basis of the assumption that the truant youth is a "potential dropout" and in view of limited literature on truants alone, truants and dropouts are considered to have similar attributes in this review. (Author)

There was no direct relationship between patients' dependency scores and the number of sessions in psychotherapy and between patients' ego-strength and attendance in psychotherapy. A statistically inverse relationship existed between dependency and ego-strength scores. (Author)

What started as a summer arts and crafts program in the predominantly Mexican-American lower west side of St. Paul, Minnesota, has developed into a "dropouts" school accepted into the public school system. The small school emphasizes strictness, caring, basic skills, and student responsibility. (SJL)

Presents data regarding income and educational level of Blacks who moved into previously White residential areas in New York City. Finds different patterns of racial succession in tracts near areas of Black concentration, areas distant from Black ghettos, and White residential sections with many recently constructed rental units. (Author/GC)

Discusses a study of learner attitudes in nine adult education centers in Madras. The study's aims were to find the rural learner's concept of adult education, to discover the reasons for adult dropouts, and to assess needs and expectations. (JOW)

College students who withdrew from a course but continued in other courses resembled dropouts in that their time of withdrawal was related to academic standing. (Editor)

Discusses the causes of student attrition in technical report writing classes; stresses the need to develop the service aspects of such courses. (MAI)

A network analytic approach to the community question is proposed in order to separate concepts which may or may not be closely associated. (Author/RLV)

Investigated whether runaway behavior could be related to six problematic areas. Selected scales of the Personality Inventory for Children, representing the six areas, were hypothesized to discriminate between an adolescent runaway group (N=60) and a control group (N-60). The runaway group was not significantly different from a known clinical…

Solving the school dropout problem requires accurate data about the actual rates and counts for all student groups residing in the community. This article discusses ways to improve demographic accounting accuracy. Reporting only dropout rates diverts attention from dropout counts and increases the likelihood of making incorrect demographic…

Analyzes data from longitudinal study of the relationship between certain school and student variables and lower secondary school dropout rate in The Netherlands. Finds that while dropout rates vary considerably among schools, only one variable--percentage of students taking further education--is significantly associated with dropout rate.…

Responses from more than 400 British adults who withdrew from part-time vocational and nonvocational further education courses revealed that withdrawal was due to a combination of reasons, more than 60% unrelated to the course or college. College-based reasons included the tutor or teaching methods. Students insisted that they not be labeled…

Examines some of the issues surrounding student retention in higher education, based on case study of a modern university in England that has good performance indicators. Adopts and explores the term "institutional habitus," and attempts to provide a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways in which the values and practices of…

Interviews with 209 Australian young people who chose not to complete secondary education reveal the complexity of this decision is based on their individual agency in constructing alternative lives. They resist credentialing, which poses an impediment rather than serves as an access mechanism. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)

Of the 173 postgraduate adult students who abandoned their studies at Hellenic Open University, 108 were interviewed. Primary reasons for dropping out included difficulty balancing academic workload with employment and family obligations (mainly for female students), miscalculation of time available for studying, and underestimation of the effort…