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Peer reviewedRoderick, Melissa; Camburn, Eric – American Educational Research Journal, 1999
Examined patterns in the relative risk of course failure and recovery from failure over the first four semesters of high school for students in the Chicago, Illinois, school system, showing how failure rates vary as a function of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and prior performance. Results for 27,612 students show that few recover from failure,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Age Differences, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedHamovitch, Bram – Urban Review, 1999
Studied 21 students labeled "at risk" by their schools who participated in an after-school compensatory program. These students partially accepted, and ultimately rejected, the status-attainment ideology promulgated within the program. Suggests ways in which adults could better represent the interests of these students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Achievement, After School Programs, Black Students
Peer reviewedReyes, Olga; Jason, Leonard A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1993
Studied characteristics distinguishing successful and failing Hispanic innercity high school students, using 24 high dropout-risk and 24 low dropout-risk Hispanic tenth graders (22 males and 26 females). When compared to high-risk counterparts, low-risk students were more satisfied with their school and maintained social groups predominantly free…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Grade 10, High Risk Students
