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Woodring, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Keeping all adolescents in high school longer will not necessarily solve illiteracy, crime, and unemployment problems. Dropout prevention programs are already on a collision course with demands for higher promotion and graduation standards. What urban dropouts need is to exchange city slums for a revised version of the Civilian Conservation Corps,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, School Holding Power, Secondary Education
