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Author: Doll, Jonathan Jacob
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1. Doll, Jonathan Jacob
Eslami, Zohreh
Walters, Lynne
Understanding Why Students Drop Out of High School, According to Their Own Reports: Are They Pushed or Pulled, or Do They Fall Out? A Comparative Analysis of Seven Nationally Representative Studies
SAGE Open 3,4 (October-December 2013):.
Also: http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/3/4/2158244013503834.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS:2002); Explorations in Equality of Opportunity Study (EEO:55); High School; High School and Beyond (HSB); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); School Dropouts

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Research on school dropout extends from early 20th-century pioneers until now, marking trends of causes and prevention. However, specific dropout causes reported by students from several nationally representative studies have never been examined together, which, if done, could lead to a better understanding of the dropout problem. Push, pull, and falling out factors provide a framework for understanding dropouts. Push factors include school-consequence on attendance or discipline. Pull factors include out-of-school enticements like jobs and family. Finally, falling out factors refer to disengagement in students not caused by school or outside pulling factors. Since 1966, most nationally representative studies depicted pull factors as ranking the highest. Also, administrators in one study corroborated pull out factors for younger dropouts, not older ones, while most recent research cites push factors as highest overall. One rationale for this change is a response to rising standards from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which can be ultimately tested only by future dropout research.
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Doll, Jonathan Jacob, Zohreh Eslami and Lynne Walters. "Understanding Why Students Drop Out of High School, According to Their Own Reports: Are They Pushed or Pulled, or Do They Fall Out? A Comparative Analysis of Seven Nationally Representative Studies." SAGE Open 3,4 (October-December 2013):.