high school dropouts

A memoir in which author David Gilmour tells about his experiences after he responded to what he saw as a disenchantment with learning in his teenage son by offering to let the fifteen-year-old drop out of school on the condition that he watch three movies a week--chosen by Gilmour, opening the doors of communication between father and son.

A young writer's quest to remain true to bedrock values as she makes the complicated journey of growing up in an unusual family.

When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

A high school dropout returns from the Navy, revives his dedication to football, and is inspired to secure his future by using his academic as well as athletic abilities.

A self-help manual for the potential high school dropout, discussing how to improve study skills, handle various school-related problems, and decide whether dropping out is the best solution.

Discusses the problem of teen dropouts, including who drops out of school and why, what life is like after dropping out, how to help teens stay in school, and how to give them a second chance.

Presents recent data about high school dropouts across America, describing the reasons why many students drop out of school, the consequences of dropping out, and ways that educators and other professionals are attempting to solve the dropout crisis.

Uses four case studies of teenagers who dropped out of high school to explain who drops out and why and to examine the economic and social consequences of such a decision.

Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.

Eighteen-year-old Flynn Robinson drops out of his senior year to play guitar in a top club band, but when he is faced with the first of many moral decisions, he begins to wish he had more of an education under his belt.