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Dropouts in America
Gary Orfield
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Description for Dropouts in America
Only half of our nation's minority students graduate from high school. "Dropouts in America" confronts the challenges facing urban schools, as well as strategies to combat increasing high school dropout rates in the face of higher academic expectations. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 540.
Only half of our nation's minority students graduate from high school along with their peers. For many groups-Latino, black, or Native American males-graduation rates are even lower. As states hasten to institute higher standards and high-stakes tests in the effort to raise student achievement, this situation is likely to worsen, particularly among minority students. Yet this educational and civil rights crisis remains largely hidden from public view. The dropout problem is far worse than statistics indicate. Many states and districts simply do not count those students who fail to receive diplomas as dropouts. Even the hardest-hit urban districts report dropout ... Read more
Only half of our nation's minority students graduate from high school along with their peers. For many groups-Latino, black, or Native American males-graduation rates are even lower. As states hasten to institute higher standards and high-stakes tests in the effort to raise student achievement, this situation is likely to worsen, particularly among minority students. Yet this educational and civil rights crisis remains largely hidden from public view. The dropout problem is far worse than statistics indicate. Many states and districts simply do not count those students who fail to receive diplomas as dropouts. Even the hardest-hit urban districts report dropout ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781891792533
SKU
V9781891792533
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99-3
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