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Why Urban Adolescents Drop into and out of Public High School
Abstract
Statistics on school experiences of dropouts provide one sort of picture of the problem. In this article Michelle Fine provides another. Using ethnographic techniques, she describes through the eyes and words of actual dropouts the factors that led them to leave school.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fine, M.
- Venue
- Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1986-01
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 393-409
- ISSN
- 0040-0475 (ISSN-L)
- 0161-4681
- 1467-9620
- OpenAlex
- W71611682
- Cited by
- 299
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 64.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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