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  title info:
    title: Dropouts and a Dropout Recovery Program at a Suburban High-poverty High School Near a Large Urban Area
  name:
    name part: Butler, Pamela Wilson
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Scheurich, James Joseph
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The decision to drop out of high school is a serious problem for the individual making the decision to drop out, but it also has dramatic implications for their families, their communities, and the economic health of the greater community. As a result, the literature on the causes of dropouts is prolific. However, I find that much of this literature is focused on blaming the students and their families for dropping out of high school. Thankfully, there is also much critique of the mainstream view as to the causes of dropouts. This critique of the mainstream literature places significant blame on our schools for causing students to drop out and considers schools - rather than students - at-risk for failing our students and actually pushing students out of school before they graduate. This critical view of the mainstream viewpoint focuses on the economic, social, and personal issues that cause students to be pushed out of school before they graduate. While this study surveys the mainstream literature on the subject of dropouts, the focus of this study supports the critical approach. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to conduct an in-depth study of the students, and dropout prevention and recovery efforts in place at a high-poverty high school during the 2007 through 2013 academic years. A goal of the study was to create a profile of a dropout at the school during that time period and to begin to create a plan that will reduce the number of students who drop out of the high school as well as the other four high schools in the district. Accordingly, for this study I examined quantitative data regarding students who dropped out of a high-poverty high school in order to look for patterns in the data that may help in creating a profile of a dropout at the school. In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with professional staff that worked at the school and students who recently attended the school. Half of the students interviewed had not dropped ou…
  note: by Pamela Butler.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Administration"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Education Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151955
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Record Of Study)
  subject:
    topic: Major Educational Administration
  subject:
    topic: Dropout
  subject:
    topic: Recovery
  subject:
    topic: Urban
  subject:
    topic: High School
  subject:
    topic: Hispanic
  subject:
    topic: Deficit thinking
  subject:
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Adult Perceptions
  subject:
    topic: Student Perceptions
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151955
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140619
    record change date: 20151206101810.0
    record identifier: in00003436071
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng