TY - BOOK AU - Orfield,Gary TI - Dropouts in America: confronting the graduation rate crisis SN - 1891792547 (hardcover) AV - LC146.6 .D763 2004 U1 - 373.12913 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - Harvard Education Press KW - High school dropouts KW - United States KW - Local KW - Dropouts KW - Prevention KW - Minorities KW - Education (Secondary) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Losing our future: minority youth left out / Gary Orfield -- Sketching a portrait of public high school graduation: who graduates? who doesn't? / Christopher B. Swanson -- Graduation rate accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act and the disparate impact on students of color / Daniel J. Losen -- Locating the dropout crisis: which high schools produce the nations dropouts? / Robert Balfanz and Nettie E. Legters -- High school dropout, race/ethnicity, and social background from the 1970s to the 1990s / Robert M. Hauser, Solon J. Simmons, and Devah I. Pager -- The national dropout data collection system: history and the search for consistency / Phillip Kaufman -- Why students drop out of school / Russell W. Rumberger -- Graduation and dropout rates after implementation of high-stakes testing in Chicago's elementary schools: a close look at students most vulnerable to dropping out / Elaine M. Allensworth -- Accountability and the grade 9 to 10 transition: the impact on attrition and retention rates / Lisa Abrams and Walt Haney -- Whatever happened to the class of 2000? the timing of dropout in Philadelphia's schools / Ruth Curran Neild and Elizabeth Farley -- Preventing dropout: use and impact of organizational reforms designed to ease the transition to high school / Kerri A. Kerr and Nettie E. Legters -- What can be done to reduce the dropout rate? / Russell W. Rumberger -- Interpreting the evidence from recent federal evaluations of dropout-prevention programs: the state of scientific research / Mark Dynarski -- Essential components of high school dropout-prevention reforms / James M. McPartland and Will J. Jordan ER -