Invisible Flood: Notes on the Politics of "Dropping Out" of an Urban Public High School.

Fine, Michelle

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ERIC Number: EJ440522

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Publication Date: 1991

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Invisible Flood: Notes on the Politics of "Dropping Out" of an Urban Public High School.

Fine, Michelle

Equity and Choice, v8 n1 p30-37 Fall 1991

Research on dropouts at an urban, comprehensive New York City high school found a complex politics of "discharge" and low awareness on the part of students and parents of legal entitlement to education, which allowed 66 percent of a ninth grade cohort to dropout without comment or concern. (JB)

Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Educational Legislation, High Schools, Knowledge Level, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, Politics of Education, School Policy, State Legislation, Suspension, Truancy, Urban Schools, Withdrawal (Education)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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