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Direct linkForman, James, Jr. – Education Next, 2008
The author relates how the idea behind the school he founded came from events that transpired in the incarceration of a 16-year-old client, Eddie. Eddie, who was charged with trespassing and stealing, pleaded to the author that he wanted "a program" instead of going to jail. However, the court found him guilty and sent him to jail. Years later,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Juvenile Justice
Lewis, Anne C. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this paper, the author discusses the recent National Center for Education Statistics study of students from the 1998 eighth-grade who had dropped out. The study found a surprisingly high percentage of these students had managed to obtain further education. The study defined a dropout as a student absent from school for four consecutive weeks or…
Descriptors: Dropouts, National Surveys, Grade 8, Attendance Patterns
