Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School before Graduation. A Report from America's Promise Alliance and its Center for Promise at Tufts University

Autor/in	Hynes, Michelle
Institution	America's Promise Alliance, Center for Promise
Titel	Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School before Graduation. A Report from America's Promise Alliance and its Center for Promise at Tufts University
Quelle	(2014), (72 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Dropouts; Student Attitudes; Low Income Students; Urban Schools; Poverty; Resilience (Psychology); Family Problems; Decision Making; Reentry Students; Barriers; Student School Relationship; Social Environment; Family Violence; School Safety; Neighborhoods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Schülerverhalten; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Armut; Familienkrise; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Zweiter Bildungsweg; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Soziales Umfeld; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft
Abstract	This report adds to the large and growing body of research about why some young people fail to complete high school on the traditional four-year timeline. To explore this issue, the Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance (a partnership between America's Promise Alliance and Tufts University) gathered the stories of more than 200 young people through 30 facilitated group interviews in 16 high-poverty, geographically distributed urban communities across the country. In addition, nearly 3,000 more young people drawn from all 50 states responded to a survey; about two-thirds of those respondents had stopped attending school for at least a semester, while the remainder had finished high school uninterrupted. Analyzing the qualitative and quantitative data led the Center's research team to four primary findings: (1) Both disengaging from and re-engaging with school result from clusters of factors; (2) Young people who stop going to school are likely to be navigating home, school, or neighborhood environments that they experience as toxic; (3) Connectedness to others is a high priority for young people; and (4) Young people who interrupted their high school education often "bounced back" from difficult circumstances, but individual resilience was insufficient to re-engage with school. Overall, the stories demonstrated that these young people were reaching up toward a more sustainable future, whether that meant returning to complete high school, finding ways to support their families, seeking opportunities to be better role models for their own children, or giving back to their communities. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01