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 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 |
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Substance Use Among School Dropouts
| This study provides information about the rates of high school drop-out in the United States and shows that, compared to youths who are enrolled in school, youths who have dropped out of school are more likely to smoke, less likely to drink alcohol and equally likely to use illicit drugs. |
| • Category: Education > Drop-Out |
| • Office of Applied Studies: Substance Abuse and Mental Health • November 28, 2003 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Teen Pregnancy: An American Dilemma
| This paper outlines the increasing problem of teenage pregnancy in America and suggests that its root causes are increased sexual activity at an earlier age, changing attitudes of young people towards premarital sex, and the attitudes of parents towards sex and marriage. |
| • Category: Education > Drop-Out |
| • The National Marriage Project • July 16, 1998 |
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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 |
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Engagement and Dropping Out of School: A Life-Course Perspective
| In an effort to better estimate why individuals drop out of high school prior to graduating, ... |
| • Category: Education > Drop-Out |
| • Human Resources Development Canada • February 01, 2001 |
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School to Adult Life Transitions through Work and Study: A Select Review of the Literature
| This paper discusses the complicated and often difficult transition that youth in Australia must make from high school to full time employment, postsecondary education, or training. |
| • Category: Education > Drop-Out |
| • The Smith Family • March 2002 |
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A Path to Good Jobs?: Unemployment and Low Wages: The Distribution of Opportunity for Young Unskilled Workers
| This paper evaluates different steps a person with little schooling may take to decrease his chances of unemployment and low wages. |
| • Category: Education > Drop-Out |
| • The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College • 1994 |
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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 |
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