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Download full textBennett, Laurie J.; Mac Iver, Martha Abele – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2009
Dropping out of school--and the concomitant failure to graduate with a high school diploma--form a "silent epidemic" in the United States today. "Nationally, research puts the graduation rate between 68 and 71 percent, which means that almost one-third of all public high school students in America fail to graduate" or drop out…
Descriptors: Females, Dropouts, Males, High School Graduates
Anderson, Douglas K. – 1993
This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore the effect of fertility on high school dropout, and differences in that effect by age at first birth. Fertility is conceptualized as a series of states: pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and motherhood. Pregnant students and mothers are much more likely to drop out…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Age Differences, Birth Rate, Dropout Rate
Peer reviewedForste, Renata; Tienda, Marta – Social Science Quarterly, 1992
Presents study results of the influence of adolescent childbearing and marriage on the likelihood of girls completing high school. Reports striking differences by ethnicity. Concludes that the effect of teen marriage on school completion was significant only for whites, with Latinas likely to drop out regardless of pregnancy, and married African…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Influences, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate
Egemba, Maria Olivia; Crawford, James R. – 2003
This study examined factors associated with Hispanic students' high dropout rates, considering not only demographic factors but also the role of family background, early school experiences, and social influences in the high Hispanic student dropout rate. Data came from students in the High School and Beyond (HS&B) longitudinal study of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Early Parenthood
West Virginia Task Force on Children, Youth and Families, Charleston. – 1995
This report provides information on 12 indicators of child and adolescent health, education, and economic status in West Virginia at the state and county level. The report includes a state profile, a minority profile, and 55 county profiles. Each of the indicators is discussed on a state-wide basis. The bulk of the report consists of 1-page county…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Welfare
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD. – 1996
This book provides a national and state-by-state (including the District of Columbia) compilation of benchmarks of the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children in the United States. Ten indicators of children's well-being are taken from government sources: (1) percent low birth-weight babies; (2) infant mortality rate;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Health, Children
