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Download full textDeborah O’Brien; Elaine M. Radmer – Critical Questions in Education, 2025
High school dropouts who return to school encounter many challenges. These obstacles increase the probability that a second dropout event will occur. This leaves leaders in Dropout Recovery programs with little ability to predict which students will stay in school and which are likely to leave again. However, what if a promising new scale could…
Descriptors: Dropout Research, Resilience (Psychology), Dropout Programs, Reentry Students
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2008
Each year, more than 8,200 young Philadelphians drop out of school. The first step to a solution, taken in 2005, was the gathering and examination of data to truly understand the dimensions of the problem and the characteristics of struggling students and out-of-school Philadelphia youth. These studies, conducted by researchers at the University…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Opportunities, Children, Out of School Youth
