1. Introduction
2. The varying requirements and pathways for completing high school : The conflicting goals of high school ; The requirements for completing high school ; Alternative pathways to high school completion
3. The nature and extent of the dropout crisis : What does it mean to drop out of school? ; The debate over dropout and graduation rates ; Measuring dropout and graduation rates ; The vast differences in dropout and graduation rates
4. The individual consequences of dropping out : Labor market outcomes ; Crime ; Family formation ; Health ; Civic engagement ; Well-being ; Intergenerational mobility
5. The social consequences of dropping out : Consequences for the economy ; Consequences for the larger society ; Total economic losses from dropouts
6. Understanding why students drop out : The process of dropping out ; The reasons students report for dropping out
7. Predictors of dropping out : Individual predictors of dropping out ; Institutional predictors of dropping out ; Explaining racial and ethnic differences in dropout rates
8. Learning from past efforts to solve the dropout crisis : Alternative approaches to improving dropout and graduation rates ; What works? ; What have we learned from large-scale reform efforts?
9. What should be done to solve the dropout crisis : Current efforts ; Moving beyond current efforts.
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Dropping out : why students drop out of high school and what can be done about it by Russell W. Rumberger. ISBN 9780674062207. Published by Harvard University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
