"Nobody Ever Asked Me Why I Left High School..." A Literature Review of Recent Qualitative Studies About Why Students Leave Conventional School

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“Nobody Ever Asked Me Why I Left High School…” A Literature Review of Recent Qualitative Studies About Why Students Leave Conventional School

Date Modified:

2022-11-14

Wilder Research and High School for Recording Arts interviewed students and young people who left conventional high schools to understand why they left. Despite the geographic and racial diversity in our respondents, the 70 students and young people we interviewed said similar things about why they left conventional school. The similarities in findings between our respondent groups prompted us to examine the degree to which our findings align with findings from other studies that focus on why students leave conventional school.

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Center for Policy Design and the Civic Affairs Trust

The Center for Policy Design and the Civic Affairs Trust requested an interview-based study with students and young people who left conventional high schools to understand why they left school.

Authors

Ander-Evans, Ryan

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