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Peer reviewedHowley, Aimee – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1996
"Creating the Dropout" traces the history of school leaving and the concept of the dropout. The dropout was invented, not discovered, only being explicitly recognized after 1960. Inventing the dropout became a way to channel general concerns about the condition of cities, identifying dropouts as authors of their own troubles. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational History
