High School Dropouts Returning to School
This study compares the characteristics of returning high school dropouts by gender.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Statistics Canada, Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics • April 2008

The Role of Parents in Dropout Prevention: Strategies that Promote Graduation and School Achievement
This research brief explains some of the ways parents can reduce the likelihood that their adolescent will drop out of school.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) and PACER Center • July 2006

Dropping Out of High School: Definitions and Costs
This paper presents research on the costs that high school dropouts incur on themselves and to society as a whole, and focuses specifically on the incidence, characteristics, and the labour market outcomes of dropouts.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Human Resources Development Canada • October 01, 2000

Peer Helper Initiatives for Out of Mainstream Youth
This paper looks at the challenges and benefits of using young adults to provide personal support such as mentoring, tutoring, and employment, to adolescent runaways, drop outs, and the homeless.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Health Canada • 1996

Unemployment Duration, Schooling and Property Crime
This paper studies the relationship between adolescent unemployment, educational achievement and crime.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Economic Policy Research • April 2002

Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth: Advances in Research and Methodology
This document is a collection of research papers and findings on the patterns, causes, and consequences of drug use and abuse among minority youth in America.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• National Institute on Drug Abuse • 1993

Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach Disconnected Youth
This report examines six government programs that could be used to help disconnected and at-risk youth.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Law and Social Policy • July 01, 2003

Education-to-Labour Market Pathways of Canadian Youth: Findings from the Youth in Transition Survey
This study uses data from Canada's Youth in Transition Survey to examine the paths young Canadians choose during the transition from education to the labour market and their associated outcomes.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Statistics Canada • November 1, 2007

When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Work Intensity on High School Dropout
Using propensity-score matching techniques, the authors of this paper determine that long working hours among high school students does not encourage school dropout.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• American Sociological Association • April 2007

The Education and Labor Market Outcomes of Adolescent Fathers
This paper looks at the long-term outcomes for men who were teen fathers and finds that they generally have lower levels of education and overall earnings.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1993

Boom Times a Bust: Declining Employment Among Less Educated Young Men
This paper examines employment rates of young males with a high school diploma or less.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Law and Social Policy • July 01, 2003

Children At Risk: State Trends 1990-2000
This comprehensive report provides a state-by-state analysis of changes in child well-being from 1990-2000.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation • August 01, 2002

Disruptive Events during the High School Years and Educational Attainment
This paper examines how high school attendance, dropout rates, and the pursuit of post-secondary education are affected by family structure and family relocation.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1998

Report Card on Aboriginal Education in British Columbia: 2004 Edition
This paper looks at the performance of Aboriginal Students in BC schools and finds that the education system is failing British Columbia's Aboriginal students.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Fraser Institute • February 01, 2004

Australian Social Trends 2001: Education - Participation in Education: Trends in Completing School
This article examines the educational attainment statistics for Australian youth as well as the factors influencing adolescents' decisions to drop-out.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • May 20, 2002

Learning From Success: What Americans Can Learn From School Choice in Canada
This paper looks at why it is that Canadian students perform better in school than do their American counterparts.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Fraser Institute • February 01, 2002

Can Early Intervention Prevent High School Dropout? Evidence from the Chicago Child-Parent Centers
This paper explores the relationship between particpation in early childhood education centres and programs, and high school drop out rates.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • November 01, 1998

Why Hispanic Students Drop Out of High School Early: Data from North Carolina
This research brief explores the unique dynamics of high school dropout among Hispanic adolescents in North Carolina.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Child and Family Policy • 2002

Transmitting Values about Education: A Comparison of Black Teen Mothers and Their Nonparent Peers
This paper compares the attitudes on the value of educational attainment promoted by families of black teen mothers and non-mothers, and seeks to determine whether or not these attitudes influence their childbearing and educational decisions.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • July 01, 1996

How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?
This paper investigates the impact of teenage childbearing on the educational attainment, employment, and income of young women.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • September 01, 1997

Lost Presence and Presents: How Parental Death Affects Children
This paper examines the effects of parental death on investments in children’s health and education.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Princeton University • October 01, 2003

Job Change and Job Stability among Less-Skilled Young Workers
This paper reviews existing research relating to adolescent job stability and instability, and presents new findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • November 01, 1998

One out of Every Five: Teenage Motherhood and Subsequent Childbearing
This paper looks at the factors that influence subsequent childbearing among teenagers and examines the impact that this has on both the mother and the children.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Law and Social Policy • August 01, 1998

Effects of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood on High School Dropout
Using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper indicates that pregnant students and young mothers are more likely to drop-out than their peers and that the risk of dropping out decreases with age.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Institute for Research on Poverty • December 01, 1993

Educational Outcomes at Age 19 Associated with Reading Ability at Age 15
This study concluded that students with lower reading levels at age 15 had a more difficult time graduating from high school and were more likely to drop out of high school or to remain in highschool later than their peers.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Statistics Canada • June 2006

Improving Primary and Secondary Education on Reserves in Canada
This paper identifies the high secondary school incompletion rate among aboriginals and proposes a First Nations Education Act to improve education on reserves.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Caledon Institute of Social Policy • October 2006

Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program 2005
This report examines educational indicators in Canada such as public and private expenditure on education, public expenditure on education compared to other government programs and debt loads incurred by college and university students upon graduation.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Statistics Canada • April 2006

The Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty
This report examines two questions: 1) Is marriage effective in reducing child poverty? and 2) What is the comparative effect of marriage and maternal education in combating child poverty? ...
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Heritage Foundation • August 02, 2002

Youth Development Programs and Educationally Disadvantaged Youth: A Synthesis
This American study examines programs and services available for older disadvantaged youth.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Child Trends • July 2003

Academic Achievement Programs and Youth Development: A Synthesis
This study examines the influence of academic achievement on adolescent development and reviews specific US academic achievement programs.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Child Trends • January 2002

Florida's Young Chronic Offenders
This study describes chronic young offenders in Florida, looks at the social costs associated with their criminal activity, and offers suggestions for intervention and policy-making.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Florida State University Family Institute • Spring 1999

Breaking the Cycle? The Effect of Education on Welfare Receipt Among Children of Welfare Recipients
This paper examines the effect of high school completion on the probability that Canadian children who grow up in welfare-reliant homes will come to depend on welfare themselves.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Institute for Fiscal Studies • June 2004

Education Subsidies and School Drop-out Rates
This paper examines whether providing needs-based financial grants to secondary students helps to reduce drop-out rates in England.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• The Institute for Fiscal Studies • June 2005

A Study of Sexual Health Issues, Attitudes, and Behaviours: The Views of Early School Leavers
This report examines sexual attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs of Irish teenagers who did not complete a secondary education.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Crisis Pregnancy Agency • November 2004

Determinants of Educational Attainment Among Adolescents in Egypt: Does School Quality Make a Difference?
This study examines the relationship between school quality and drop-out among Egyptian middle-school students.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Population Council, Policy Research Division • 2001

Parental Cohabitation Experience and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
This paper examines the effects of parental cohabitation on the behavioural outcomes of adolescent girls.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• Center for Family and Demographic Research • January 2003

Adolescents' Formal Employment and School Enrollment: Effects of State Welfare Policies
This paper demonstrates that strict welfare policies often serve to reduce job opportunities for youth, by significantly increasing the number of individuals who are looking for jobs.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• John Hopkins University • February 2004

Dropout Rates in the United States: 2000
This report provides high school dropout and graduation rates from 1972 to 2000, and examines the characteristics of those who graduated high school and those who did not.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• National Center for Education Statistics • November 2001

Subsequent Educational Attainment of High School Dropouts
This study examined the pursuit of further education by high school dropouts from 1988, and found that about half completed high school and about one quarter enrolled at a postsecondary institution.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics • June 1998

A Comparison of High School Dropout Rates in 1982 and 1992
This paper compares the American high school drop-out rates for 1982 and 1992 and looks at how the changing demographics of high school students may have impacted students’ educational attainment.
• Category: Education > Drop-Out
• National Center for Education Statistics • October 1996

Dropout Rates in the United States: 1997
This report provides high school dropout and graduation rates from 1972 to 1997, and examines the characteristics of those who graduate and those who do not.
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