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highschool droputs
Manny Montano
Frederking
English 1A
10/26/14
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Inquiry Question: What causes high school students to dropout?
Citation: Baker, Wanda L. "High School Dropout: Perceptions and Voices of African American and Hispanic Students." Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin 78.2 (2012): 50-6. ProQuest. Web. 15 Oct. 2014.
Genre: Trade Journals.
Purpose: examine the student’s perspectives including the reasons that drive students to drop out of a diverse suburban high school in the district of southeast Texas.
Audience: students, teachers,parents, high schools across the country, public school districts.
Summary: In the text Wanda Baker explains how bad the dropout rate is especially when it comes to Hispanics and African Americans. She asserts that dropouts not only affect the students, but their parents, families, and “schools at statewide and national levels.”
Author authority: assistant principal at Cypress Ridge High School in Houston Texas, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma since 2004, serves as president of Lambda Alpha Chapter in Texas and has a membership in the Texas Council of Women School Executives and the Texas Association of Secondary Schools Principals.
Publisher or Sponsor authority: Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is a credible publisher because the database gives the information.
Relevance to my inquiry question: The article contributes to my question because Wanda Baker informs that the dropout rate in high schools is more alarming when examined in the light of ethnic and racial distribution. Also explains how the dropout problem affects students, families, and schools at and nationwide levels.
Citation: Gasper, Joseph M.. Drug Use and Delinquency : Causes of Dropping Out of High School?. El Paso, TX, USA: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 November 2014.
Genre: Trade Journal
Purpose: The author is writing this to inform us how drug use and delinquency is a cause and can still be a cause of the decision of a student


Bibliography: Citation: Gasper, Joseph M.. Drug Use and Delinquency : Causes of Dropping Out of High School?. El Paso, TX, USA: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2011. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 13 November 2014. Citation: Griffin, Bryan W. "Academic Disidentification, Race, and High School Dropouts." The High School Journal 85.4 (2002): 71-81.ProQuest. Web. 29 Oct. 2014. Citation: Halx, Mark D., and Moisés Ortiz. "Voices of Latino Male High School Students on their Disconnect with Education: Perspectives of "Drop-Outs" and those on the Brink." Latino Studies 9.4 (2011): 416-38. ProQuest. Web. 29 Oct. 2014. Citation: Kishore, Arun, and K. Shaji. "School Dropouts: Examining the Space of Reasons." Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine34.4 (2012): 318-23. ProQuest. Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
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