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Why Urban Adolescents Drop into and out of Public High School.

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Fine, Michelle – Teachers College Record, 1986

The author analyzed the economic and social arrangements, school policies and practices, and individual and collective psychologies of adolescent dropouts from a comprehensive high school in New York City. (MT)

Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, High Schools

Making Controversy: Who's "At Risk"?

Fine, Michelle – Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 1990

Public obsession with issues of measurement, early intervention, promotion, suspension, education, age of exit, and alternative education dominates discourse on what can be done about high school dropouts. Additional controversial issues of societal structural interdependence are examined for their importance in education reform for minority and…

Descriptors: Dropout Research, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change