Dropping out
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Dropping out means leaving a group. It is used in various contexts, including:
- Most commonly it refers to a student quitting school before he or she graduates. It cannot always be ascertained that a student has dropped out, as he or she may stop attending without terminating enrollment.
- In clinical trials participants may withdraw from the study, for example, due to adverse effects. This is also referred to as dropping out.
- In the 1960s "dropping out" was used to mean withdrawing from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values. It is a term commonly associated with the 1960s counterculture and with hippies and communes. See Turn on, tune in, drop out.
[edit] External links
- Essay by Ran Prieur
- Dropout Intervention and Language Minority Youth - From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
- The Dropout Cure: Students Seeing Their Own Future
- Report: Many big city graduation rates below 50%
