INTRODUCTION Losing Our Future: Minority Youth Left Out
1
(12)
Gary Orfield
CHAPTER 1 Sketching a Portrait of Public High School Graduation: Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?
13
(28)
Christopher B. Swanson
CHAPTER 2 Graduation Rate Accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Disparate Impact on Students of Color
41
(16)
Daniel J. Losen
CHAPTER 3 Locating the Dropout Crisis: Which High Schools Produce the Nation's Dropouts?
57
(28)
Robert Balfanz and Nettie E. Legters
CHAPTER 4 High School Dropout, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Background from the 1970's to the 1990's
85
(22)
Robert M. Hauser, Solon J. Simmons, and Devah I. Pager
CHAPTER 5 The National Dropout Data Collection System: History and the Search for Consistency
107
(24)
Phillip Kaufman
CHAPTER 6 Why Students Drop Out of School
131
(26)
Russell W. Rumberger
CHAPTER 7 Graduation and Dropout Rates after Implementation of High-Stakes Testing in Chicago's Elementary Schools: A Close Look at Students Most Vulnerable to Dropping Out
157
(24)
Elaine M. Allensworth
CHAPTER 8 Accountability and the Grade 9 to 10 Transition: The Impact on Attrition and Retention Rates
181
(26)
Lisa Abrams and Walt Haney
CHAPTER 9 Whatever Happened to the Class of 2000? The Timing of Dropout in Philadelphia's Schools
207
(14)
Ruth Curran Neild and Elizabeth Farley
CHAPTER 10 Preventing Dropout: Use and Impact of Organizational Reforms Designed to Ease the Transition to High School
221
(22)
Kerri A. Kerr and Nettie E. Legters
CHAPTER 11 What Can Be Done to Reduce the Dropout Rate?
243
(12)
Russell W Rumberger
CHAPTER 12 Interpreting the Evidence from Recent Federal Evaluations of Dropout-Prevention Programs: The State of Scientific Research
255
(14)
Mark Dynarski
CHAPTER 13 Essential Components of High School Dropout-Prevention Reforms
269
(20)
James M. McPartland and Willi Jordan
About the Contributors
289
(4)
Index
293
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