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Irwin, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative research project focused on the interviews of 27 low socio-economic students at a research university in the southwestern United States. The students had already withdrawn from the university or were in the process of withdrawing. The study seeks to provide increased understanding of how students negotiate the decision-making…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Students, Withdrawal (Education), Academic Persistence
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Safer, Daniel J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1986
This review summarizes pertinent literature on the differential impact of primary versus secondary public education on students. Data show that junior high/middle school students with prominent elementary school maladjustments have a 5-13-fold greater rate of grade failure, suspension, and undue absenteeism than do students without such…
Descriptors: Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Junior High Schools