![]() ![]() The dropouts who reported the greatest academic struggles were the ones most likely to say that their schools hadn’t done enough to help them with those difficulties, the report says. Seven in 10 said they believed they could have graduated if they had tried hard enough. More than six in 10 said they had grades of C or better. Only 35 percent of the former students interviewed cited academic failure as a major factor in dropping out. The sample was not nationally representative. In the following two months, researchers interviewed 467 dropouts from 25 large cities, small towns, suburbs, and rural areas. Hart Research Associates, an opinion-research company, conducted four focus groups with dropouts in Philadelphia and Baltimore last August. Bridgeland, who directed the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Bush and is now the president and chief executive officer of Civic Enterprises, the Washington-based public-policy-development group that conducted the study. ![]() “The very people most affected by this crisis, the young people, are telling us that this problem can be solved,” said John M. The report’s authors emphasized that their aim was to explore young people’s reasons for leaving school at a time of heightened interest in the issue, and to spark a national response that would help more such students finish high school. ![]()
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