The Path to Dropping Out: Evidence for Intervention
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Path to Dropping Out: Evidence for Intervention
By (Author) Melissa Roderick
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th June 1993
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Secondary schools
Age groups: children
Age groups: adolescents
373.12
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Description
Middle school and early high school dropouts have long troubled educators. However, research on this sad phenomenon has been far less than definitive as to the causes. In this research-based book, Roderick examines two critical factors impacting graduation or dropping out. They are school transition to middle school and from there to high school and, secondly, grade retention. The subjects of the study were students from an urban Massachusetts public school system. The author contends the notion that middle and high school dropouts can be predicted based on their grades and attendance in 4th grade. She also provides the strongest evidence to date that the experience of being retained in grade increases a student's chances of dropping out. This book gives us a new conception of the nature of school dropout in schools with high dropout rates.
Reviews
Roderick provides new insight and a conceptual foundation for understanding the dropout problem, and her work may well prove to be the most seminal of the last decade. Recommended for pre-professionals, graduate students, and faculty.-Choice
"Roderick provides new insight and a conceptual foundation for understanding the dropout problem, and her work may well prove to be the most seminal of the last decade. Recommended for pre-professionals, graduate students, and faculty."-Choice
Author Bio
MELISSA RODERICK is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago where she teaches courses in social policy, program evaluation, and quantitative analysis. She is interested in the social and academic development of adolescents and the determinants of successful transitions to work and adulthood. Her research focuses on the influence of school organization, policies, and practices on student outcomes, and issues in urban education and youth policy. She is currently studying curriculum tracking in high schools.
