Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004. NCES 2007-024.

By J. Laird, Matthew DeBell, Chris Chapman. 2006

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The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling (2006, unknown): “The National Center for Education Statistics (1997) estimates that approximately one-quarter of young adults who had repeated a grade had dropped out of school by 1995. Similarly, Smith and Shepard (1989) find that students who have previously repeated a grade tend to have worse academic outcomes th”
Linking Socioeconomic Status to the Academic Achievement of Mexican American Youth Through Parent Involvement in Education (2012, background): “downward trend in drop-out rates for all three racial/ethnic groups, Hispanic youth continued to experience drop-out rates 2 to 4 times higher than those of Black and White youth (Laird et al., 2007).”
Examining Productive Conceptions of Masculinities: Lessons Learned from Academically Driven African American Male Student-Athletes (2006, unknown): “Grounded in the phenomenological research tradition, the focus of the study was to describe what the participants had experienced, how they experienced it, and the meanings they made of their lived experiences (Moustakas, 1994).”