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Bowen, Jeffrey M.; Lipkowitz, Debra L. – 1985
Students drop out of school for a wide variety of reasons. Programs to discourage dropping out must therefore accommodate the actual needs of individual students rather than aim at the assumed needs of the "typical dropout." This document reviews school policies and programs that could affect dropout tendencies positively. Among these…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts