Cocking, Rodney R.; Altenbaugh, Richard J.; Engel, David E.; Martin, Don T.

Caring for Kids: a Critical Study of Urban School Leavers

Recent school drop-out figures in the US average at least 25 per cent. This text, based on interviews with school leavers who later returned to school, asks four basic questions: who drops out?; why did they drop out?; what made them return?; and what will prevent the drop-out in the first place?