SOME ARTICLES!

Anguiano, R. P. V. "Families and Schools: The Effect of Parental Involvement on High

School Completion." Journal of Family Issues 25.1 (2004): 61-85. Print.

This article focuses on another perspective as to why students drop out: the family background. The article studied several different ethnicities’’ parental involvement and their children’s high school completion.  It used the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to provide statistical information for the study. This article provided specific information for a common reason behind dropping out.

 Bradley, Christen L. The Complexity of Non-Completion: Being Pushed or Pulled to

Drop Out of High School. Rep. Oxford University Press, 22 Dec. 2011. Web. 01  Mar. 2012. <http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/21/sf.sor003.abstract>.

This article is in a scholarly journal, which provides a lot of ethos. The article focuses on how society sees a teenager as strictly “in school” or a “dropout” and how this brief labeling doesn’t show the complex reasoning behind the child’s quitting school. The author offers a new terminology: in school, pushed out, or pulled out. The article cites the Educational Longitudinal Survey, which shows how different races have different patterns for being pushed or pulled out, and also that gender has an effect on being pushed or pulled out. This is an interesting perspective to take on the idea of high school dropouts.

Bridgeland, John M., John J. Dilulio, Jr., and Karen Burke Morison. Ignitelearning.com.

Rep. Civic Enterprises and Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Mar. 2006. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. <http://www.ignitelearning.com/pdf/TheSilentEpidemic3-06FINAL.pdf>.

This source is a report compiled by three people, which I believe adds ethos because it lists the authors specifically, unlike others that just listed the organization. The report focuses on the typical question of “why do students drop out?” but takes it into a different perspective. The authors found that most students didn’t quit school because school was too hard and they couldn’t do it, but because their living circumstances wouldn’t allow them to. This is something I can relate to because the people I know that have dropped out of high school have almost always been bright, and this source backs up this notion by providing a survey of dropouts. This is a very interesting report with high ethos.

Farrell, E., G. Peguero, R. Lindsey, and R. White. "Giving Voice to High School

Students: Pressure and Boredom, Ya Know What I'm Sayin'?" American Educational Research Journal 25.4 (1988): 489-502. Print.

This journal is an interesting study where sutdents from the at-risk of dropping out population were studied by being told to record dialogues between them and their friends. This is an interesting study because it is more realistic and not strictly an “in the laboratory” type of experiment. The actual opinions of students were given, not merely a survey. The results were that pressure and boredom were the most commonly given reasons for quitting school.