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ERIC Number: EJ955466
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7732
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The Complexity of Non-Completion: Being Pushed or Pulled to Drop out of High School
Bradley, Christen L.; Renzulli, Linda A.
Social Forces, v90 n2 p521-545 Dec 2011
Using a model of student dropout with only two possible outcomes--"still in school" or "dropout"--hides the complex reasons that students leave high school. We offer a model with three outcomes: in school, pushed out or pulled out. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Survey, we find that for black students, differences in SES explain higher likelihoods of being either pushed or pulled out as compared to white students, but Latino students remain more likely to be pulled out even after we control for SES. We also find that SES moderates the relationship between race/gender and being pushed out, and that higher levels of SES may be detrimental to students of color in the context of high poverty schools.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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