School Dropouts have less employment and learning potential than graduates, contribute less to the economy, and add to social service costs. To identify a set of predictive dropout characteristics for females by racial/ethnic background and a set of intervention strategies to address those factors, telephone surveys covering 52 items were…

The study described in this report examined the characteristics of eighth-grade students who were at risk of school failure. The study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, which is a large-scale, national longitudinal study begun in the spring of 1988 when 25,000 eighth graders attending public and private schools…