Title Creating the dropout : an institutional and social history of school failure / Sherman Dorn

Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996

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Description x, 167 pages ; 25 cm Contents 1. Long-Term Demographic Patterns -- 2. The Changing Mission of High Schools -- 3. Early Attitudes Toward Attrition -- 4. "Social Dynamite" -- 5. The Limits of Dropout Programs -- 6. Omissions -- 7. Dropout Tides -- 8. The Demeaning Dropout Debate Analysis Secondary schools Students United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-163) and index Subject Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- United States. High school dropouts -- United States. LC no. 95045414 ISBN 0275951758 (alk. paper)

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