Dropouts From Schools

Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Eleanor Farrar is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Hugh G. Petrie is Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLois Weis, Eleanor Farrar, and Hugh G. Petrie1. Dropping Out: Can Schools Be Expected to Prevent It?Gary G. WhelageI. Who Are the Dropouts? The Topic Reconsidered 2. Bein' Wrapped Too Tight: When Low-Income Women Drop Out of High School Michelle Fine and Nancy Zane3. Dropout Issues and Problems in Rural America, with a Case Study of One Central Appalachian School DistrictAlan J. DeYoung with Karen Huffman and Mary Ellen Turner4. Dropping Out of Academics: Black Youth and the Sports Subculture in a Cross-National PerspectiveR. Patrick SolomonII. Inside Schools 5. Social Services in High SchoolsEleanor Farrar and Robert L. Hampel6. Urban Teachers and Dropout-Prone Students: The Uneasy PartnersCharles Payne7. Competency Testing and DropoutsAmelia E. Kreitzer, George F. Madaus and Walt Haney8. Reducing Student Alienation in High Schools: Implications of TheoryFred M. NewmannIII. Critical Perspectives: A Look at the Larger Context 9. The Individual in Collective Adaptation: A Framework for Focusing on Academic Underperformance and Dropping Out Among Involuntary MinoritiesJohn U. Ogbu10. American Realities: Poverty, Economy, and EducationMichael W. AppleContributorsIndex

"An excellent and comprehensive discussion of the dropout problem. It raises issues in an insightful manner." — Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison