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Peer reviewedClifford, Margaret M. – Educational Leadership, 1990
School abandonment is a systemic failure that affects poor and affluent students alike and threatens our country's well-being. Such "educational suicide" is primarily a motivational problem. It is time for educators to replace coercive, constraint-laden techniques with autonomy-supportive techniques and to supplant error-proof lessons with…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Educational Environment, Risk, Secondary Education
