Ch. 1. The Policy Context: A Profile of the High School Dropout Problem --

Ch. 2. School Dropouts: A Literature Review --

Ch. 3. Examining the Relationship Between School Experiences and School Dropout: The Fall River Study --

Ch. 4. What Do the School Careers of Dropouts and Graduates Look Like? --

Ch. 5. School Transitions and School Dropout: A Model for Investigating the Impact of School Transitions --

Ch. 6. Grade Retention and School Dropout: Investigating the Association --

Ch. 7. The Two Dropout Problems: A Framework for Dropout Prevention Policy --

Ch. 8. Policy and Research Implications. 1-A. Comparing Measures of the National Dropout Rate. 1-B. Percentage Change in the Median Earnings of Young Adult Workers and Year-Round, Full-Time Workers Aged 20 to 29, 1972-1987. 3-A. Entered Sample Composition by Demographic Variables. 4-A. Average Fourth-Grade Mean Academic Grades, Mean Social Grades, Attendance and Percentile Rank of Dropouts and Graduates by Grade of Dropout and Graduating Class Rank. 4-B. Means, Standard Deviations, and Sample Sizes for Figures 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, and 4.6. 4-C. Logit Coefficients for Table 4.10. 5-A. Effect of Single Grade Mean Academic Grades on the Conditional Likelihood of Dropping Out Given Persistence to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Grades: Logit Coefficients for Tables 5.2 and 5.3. 6-A. Effect of Grade Retentions Controlling for Background Variables, Fourth-Grade Mean Academic Grades and Attendance: Logit Coefficients for Tables 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5. 6-B. Coefficient Estimates for Logit-Hazard of Dropping Out by Risk Period and Being Behind in Grade: Logit Coefficients for Table 6.7.