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Education problems

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Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fail to meet grade level expectations

Higher levels of failure and grade repetition, increases risk of dropping out

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Dropping out

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Leaving school before finishing required program

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Truancy

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Absence from school without an excuse

Excessive truancy can lead to dropping out

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Why do youth drop out?

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Wanting a job or not liking school

Low academic achievement, poor problem solving, difficulty getting along with teachers, substance abuse, too old for grade level

Poverty and family dysfunction increase chances

Minority students drop out at higher rate than European American students

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Correlates of School Failure

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Personal Problems (Youth bring personal problems with them to school)

Social class
Economic problems may cause students to take part time jobs, lower class students not equipped for middle class schools
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Tracking

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Dividing students into groups based on academic achievement

Effects of school label accumulate over time; if students fail academically, they are destined to again

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Alienation

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Students who report they neither like school nor care about their teachers opinions are more likely to exhibit delinquent behaviors

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Causes of crime

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School level
High proportion of students behind grade level in reading, many students from welfare families, high crime areas

Individual level
May be a function of # of students with emotional problems, isolated children

Community level
Schools with drug and crime problems most likely in socially disorganized neighborhoods

9
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No Child Left Behind Act

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Authorizes federal programs aimed at improving primary and secondary schools by increasing accountability

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New Jersey v. TLO

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Students are constitutionally protected from illegal searches, but schools are not bound by the same restrictions as law enforcement agencies

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Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton

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Legalized random drug testing for student athletes

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Free Speech

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Divided into passive speech and active speech, cannot be prohibited unless it interferes with discipline needed to operate schools

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School prayer

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Prayers led by an elected student official undermines protection of minority viewpoints

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In loco parentis

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In the absence of parents, schools have right to discipline