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Publication Date: 1997
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Refocusing Drop-Out Prevention Initiatives: Neutralizing a Defensive Worldview within Small School Settings.
Malloy, William
Educational Foundations, v11 n4 p5-24 Fall 1997
Educators working to improve dropout prevention programs should closely examine the development of defensive overlays in children's world views. Efforts to neutralize defensive world views within existing dropout prevention initiatives should refocus efforts to be more holistic. Such neutralization may best succeed in small schools. (SM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Resilience (Personality), School Role, School Size, Secondary School Students, Small Schools, Social Influences, Student Attitudes
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Language: English
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