Hi Daphne,

Sorry I'm so late chiming in and I hope this isn't redundant at this
point.

 

While it's not exactly what you asked for, here's a longitudinal study
that you all may find of interest regarding dropouts:

 

http://www.jff.org/Documents/MkingGoodProm.pdf 

In 2006, Jobs for the Future released the National Educational
Longitudinal Study that tracked progress of 25,000 eighth graders over
12 years. 

I'd be interested to know what others think about the details in this
study - what surprises you.

 

Jackie Taylor

jataylor at utk.edu 

 

 

From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Daphne Greenberg

Sent: Sun 11/25/2007 6:52 PM

To: povertyracewomen at nifl.gov

Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 1439] drop-outs

 

 

 

Andrea raises an important point-" we should interview the drop-outs to
see why they have dropped out." Does anyone know of studies which were
conducted with high school drop outs, asking them why they dropped out
of school? Perhaps some of you have asked your learners this question
and want to contribute what you have learned. What I have heard are
issues related to gangs, pregnancy, illness, moving around a lot. I have
never heard anyone specifically state anything about the educational
system, even though most of the learners that I have interacted with
read below a fifth grade level, and therefore did not benefit from the
school system way before they dropped out. It would be interesting if
anyone knows of any studies that focus on this type of issue.

Daphne

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