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Peer reviewedEdiger, Marlow – Education, 2005
The Old Order Amish in the societal arena provides a philosophy of education which is unique and worthy of study.They tend to have a minimal of problems when making comparisons with other sub cultures in society. Drug abuse, pregnancy among unwed mothers, crime, alcoholism, thievery, and other forms of anti-social behavior appear to be at a very…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Unwed Mothers, Values, Pregnancy
Egginton, Everett; And Others – 1990
This study was conducted to compare the factors that student dropouts report as contributing to their dropping out of school with those factors that "at-risk" students report as influencing their attitudes toward school. These two sets of factors, assessed in two separate studies, include in-school and out-of-school experiences, socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
