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Higgins, Catherine – 1988
High attrition from programs for at-risk youth suggest that planners are not assessing interventions from the consumers' perspective. Some disadvantaged youth join and complete programs (persisters), while others from the same communities either fail to join or drop out (leavers). Participants in two in-school remedial programs and two…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Discussion Groups, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Programs
