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Lipsitz, Joan – Common Focus, 1985
The American adolescent of the 1980s presents a mixed picture of social and economic trends. Census data on schooling, for example, reveal that the number of 17-year-olds who graduate from high school has remained relatively stable in the last 20 years. On the other hand, the dropout rate persists at the same high level, and racial differences are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Demography, Drug Abuse
