Tightening the Dropout Tourniquet: Easing the Transition From Middle to High School

By Jennifer S. Cohen, Becky A. Smerdon. 2009

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Why Tenth Graders Fail to Finish High School: A Dropout Typology Latent Class Analysis (2012, unknown): “…out that students incur during grades 7 through 9, especially in the transition from grade 8 to grade 9 (Alexander, Entwisle, & Kabbani, 2001; Allensworth & Easton, 2007; Balfanz, Herzog, & MacIver, 2007; Bowers, 2010b; Cohen & Smerdon, 2009; Neild, 2009; Roderick & Camburn, 1999; Rumberger, 1995).”
Teacher Safety and Authoritative School Climate in High Schools (2012, background): “Authoritative discipline theory (Gregory and Cornell 2009) and recent reviews of research on school climate (Cohen et al. 2009) suggest that characteristics of the school environment could be associated with faculty safety conditions.”
Facilitating student engagement through the flipped learning approach in K-12: A systematic review (2020, background): “…to note, given Year 9 is a difficult stage for adolescents, especially in the US - where the majority of studies were undertaken - as students are entering high school for the first time, making the transition to more difficult subject content and higher expectations (Cohen & Smerdon, 2009).”