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High School Dropout Problem

-at-risk for high school dropout. Findings of the study revealed that those students who were most at-risk had the following characteristics: poor academic record; low parental education level; dislike for school; little or no participation in extra-curricular activities; discipline problems; disrupted home life; low socioeconomic status; age of 16 or 17 years in grades 9 through 11; poor self-concept; inadequate goals; low aspirations; and poor reading ability.

According to Wittenberg, the primary reasons that teens give for why they dropped out of school included: academic failure; marriage, marriage plans, or pregnancy; dislike or lack of interest in school; discipline problems; and inability to get along with teachers or peers.

Following a lengthy discussion of urban dropout rates, possible risk factors, the inadequacies of the general equivalency diploma (GED) and alternative high school curricula, Ogletree and Ujlaki surveyed a sample of GED students to determine the factors contributing to their dropping out of high school. Data were collected via a non-evaluative survey instrument, using a sample of 200 adults enrolled in the GED program at Thornton Community College (Chicago, Illinois).

Contrary to many sociological and psychological conceptualizations of students' reasons for leaving high school, Ogletree and Ujlaki reported that their findings revealed that very few sampled adults had been in trouble with the law, influenced adversely by peers, involved in gangs, suspended from school, abused as children, absent, ill, disabled, afraid to go to school, or raised in a dangerous community. Rather, data suggested that poverty and socioeconomic background were the primary contributing factors affecting students' decisions to dropout of school.

In another extensive review of the existing literature on reasons for high school drop out, Natriello stated that main reasons that students drop out of high school are...

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