Who Drops Out of High School and Why? Findings from a National Study

Using the most comprehensive data set on school dropouts that we have to date, the High School and Beyond study, Ruth Ekstrom, Margaret Goertz, Judith Pollack, and Donald Rock provide an analysis of the salient characteristics of the dropout population.

• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Teachers College Record

• Publication date

  1986-03-01

• Fields of study

  Chemistry, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/016146818608700308
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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