Making Good on a Promise [electronic resource] : What Policymakers Can Do to Support the Educational Persistence of Dropouts. Double the Numbers: A Jobs for the Future Initiative / Cheryl Almeida, Cassius Johnson and Adria Steinberg.
One of the major barriers to making good on this promise is the broad set of misconceptions framing most discussions of the dropout issue. Too often, both public perception and public policy seem based on the notion that dropping out is confined to a small--and particularly unmotivated--group of you...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | One of the major barriers to making good on this promise is the broad set of misconceptions framing most discussions of the dropout issue. Too often, both public perception and public policy seem based on the notion that dropping out is confined to a small--and particularly unmotivated--group of young people. A related assumption, although rarely voiced, is that dropping out is primarily a problem of disaffected black and Hispanic central city youth who have rejected mainstream values, including the importance of education. Such views have reinforced a third widespread misconception: that there is little anyone can do to get most young people who leave school back on track--earning a high school degree and advancing to higher education. Making Good on a Promise challenges those beliefs. It paints a new, more accurate picture of the dropout problem facing the nation today, with a detailed look at who dropped out and how much education they had completed by their early adulthood. It analyzes data from the first major national study to follow a representative group of young people over time: the National Educational Longitudinal Study, which tracked the educational progress of approximately 25,000 eighth-graders in 1988 over 12 years, to 2000. Methodology is appended. (Contains 14 figures and 11 endnotes.) |
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| Item Description: | Availability: Jobs for the Future, 88 Broad Street, Boston, MA 02110. Tel: 617-728-4446; Web site: http://www.jff.org. Sponsoring Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sponsoring Agency: Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY. Abstractor: ERIC. Educational level discussed: High Schools. Educational level discussed: Postsecondary Education. |
| Physical Description: | 20 pages. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (Reports, Evaluative) |
| Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note: | Jobs for the Future. |