| Description |
1 online resource (110 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Series |
Issues that concern you |
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Gale virtual reference library
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Issues that concern you.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Dropping out of school is a national crisis / Keith Melville -- The dropout crisis is also an economic crisis / Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Sarah Karp -- The dropout crisis is improving / Sarah D. Sparks -- High school dropouts are more severely affected by a poor economy than graduates / Alliance for Excellent Education -- An emphasis on vocational education could reduce dropout rates / William C. Symonds, Robert B. Schwartz and Ronald Ferguson -- High-stakes testing and zero-tolerance policies increase dropout rates / Advancement Project -- Separate schools for minorities are not the answer to the dropout crisis / Jan Wong -- New strategies by educators are decreasing minority dropout rates / Ed Finkel -- The dropout crisis is also rural / Mary Ann Zehr -- Decreasing the dropout rate requires multiple solutions / Dale Mezzacappa -- Blended learning offers high school dropouts a second chance / June Kronholz. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Summary |
Explores the issues surrounding school dropouts. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Dropouts -- United States.
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Dropouts -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Dropouts -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Watkins, Heidi, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dropping out of school. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2012 9780737762891 (DLC) 2012021470 |
| ISBN |
9780737767780 (electronic book) |
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9780737762891 (hardback) |
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