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Dorn, Sherman – 1996
One of the six national goals in the United States is to achieve a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2000. In the last 50 years, high school graduation has become the norm. Concurrent with the new expectation of high school graduation came the dominance of the word "dropout" to describe those without diplomas. Many Americans view…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
