Dropping out
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"College dropout" redirects here. For the Kanye West album, see The College Dropout.
Dropping out means leaving a school or group for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.
Most commonly, dropping out refers to a student quitting school before he or she graduates or avoiding entering a University. It cannot always be ascertained that a student has dropped out, as he or she may stop attending without terminating enrollment. It is estimated 1.2 million students annually drop out of high school in the United States, where high school graduation rates rank 19th in the world.[1] Reasons are varied and may include: to find employment, avoid bullying, family emergency, poor grades, depression and other mental illnesses, unexpected pregnancy, bad environment, lack of freedom, and boredom from lack of lessons relevant to their desired occupations. The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts[2] by Civic Enterprises explores reasons students leave school without graduating. The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated.[3] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts.[4]
In the 1960s, "dropping out" was used to mean withdrawing from established society, especially because of disillusionment 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.
In clinical trials, participants may withdraw from the study, for example, due to adverse effects. This is also referred to as dropping out.
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Dropout recovery [edit]
A dropout recovery initiative is any community, government, non-profit or business program in which students who have previously left school are sought out for the purpose of re-enrollment. In the United States, such initiatives are often focused on former high school students who are still young enough to have their educations publicly subsidized, generally those 22 years of age and younger. [5]
Dropout recovery programs can be initiated in traditional "brick-and-mortar" institutions of learning, in community centers or online.
Notable Dropouts [edit]
Grammar School [edit]
- Andre the Giant
- Gerard Depardieu
- Andy Gibb
- Andrew Johnson
- Jack Lalanne
- Sophia Loren
- Rod McKuen
- Sidney Poitier
- Barry Williams
Source: The Celebrity Almanac, (c) 1991, by Ed Lucaire (X)
High School [edit]
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- Danny Aiello(X)
- Billie Joe Armstrong[6]
- Richard Avedon(X)
- Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin[7]
- Brigitte Bardot(X)
- Harry Belafonte(X)
- Robert Blake(X)
- Sonny Bono(X)
- Bjorn Borg(X)
- David Bowie(X)
- Richard Branson[8]
- Ellen Burstyn(X)
- Sir Michael Caine
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. [9]
- Glen Campbell(X)
- George Carlin(X)
- Gurbaksh Chahal[10]
- John Chancellor(X)
- Cher(X)
- Kurt Cobain[11]
- Jackie Collins(X)
- Sir Sean Connery(X)
- Roger Daltrey(X)
- Bo Derek(X)
- Walt Disney[12]
- Eazy-E[13]
- Albert Einstein, Luitpold Gymnasium[8]
- Eminem[14]
- Michael Enright (broadcaster)[15]
- Lola Falana(X)
- Bobby Fischer, Erasmus Hall High School[16]
- Carrie Fisher(X)
- Michael J. Fox(X)
- Redd Foxx(X)
- Jerry Garcia(X)
- James Garner(X)
- Marvin Gaye[17]
- Boy George(X)
- Marjoe Gortner(X)
- Cary Grant(X)
- Dave Grohl[18]
- Gene Hackman(X)
- Merle Haggard(X)
- Marvin Hewitt[19]
- Beland Honderich[20]
- Lena Horne(X)
- Darrell Issa[21]
- Jay-Z[22]
- Peter Jennings(X)
- Waylon Jennings(X)
- Sir Tom Jones(X)
- David Karp[23]
- Duke Kahanamoku, Kamehameha Schools[24]
- Hitomi Kanehara[25]
- Eartha Kitt(X)
- Evel Knievel(X)
- Jerry Lewis(X)
- Loretta Lynn(X)
- Charles Manson(X)
- Bam Margera[26]
- Dean Martin(X)
- Lee Marvin(X)
- Elaine May(X)
- Steve McQueen(X)
- Melina Mercouri(X)
- Robert Mitchum(X)
- Sir Roger Moore(X)
- David H. Murdock[27]
- Nas[28]
- Olivia Newton-John(X)
- The Notorious B.I.G.[29]
- Juan Carlos Onetti[30]
- Peter O'Toole(X)
- Al Pacino(X)
- Teddy Pendergrass[31]
- Prince(X)
- Richard Pryor(X)
- Anthony Quinn(X)
- James Earl Ray[32]
- Harold Robbins(X)
- Danny Rolling[33]
- Vidal Sassoon(X)
- Tupac Shakur[34]
- Arthur Shawcross[35]
- Alicia Silverstone(Y)
- Jessica Simpson(Y)
- Frank Sinatra(X)
- Ringo Starr(X)
- Rod Steiger(X)
- Danny Thomas(X)
- Dave Thomas (American businessman)[36]
- Randy Travis(X)
- John Travolta(X)
- Chester Turner[37]
- Sir Peter Ustinov(X)
- Robert Wagner(X)
- Flip Wilson(X)
- Frank Lloyd Wright[38]
- Wright Brothers[39]
Source: Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia (c) 1996 (Y)
University [edit]
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- Nikola Tesla, Graz University of Technology[40][41][42][43]
- Woody Allen, New York University[44]
- Andrew Black, University of Exeter[45]
- Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin[46]
- Arash Ferdowsi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology[47]
- Bill Gates, Harvard University[48]
- David Geffen,[49] Santa Monica City College, Brooklyn College, University of Texas at Austin
- John Glenn, Muskingum University[49]
- Steve Jobs, Reed College[12][50]
- Jack Kerouac, Columbia University[51]
- Kanye West, Chicago State University[52][dead link]
- Alicia Keys, Columbia University[53]
- James Dean, UCLA[54]
- John Steinbeck, Stanford University [55][dead link]
- Sylvester Stallone, University of Miami[56]
- William Faulkner, University of Mississippi[57]
- Anthony Bourdain, Vassar College [58]
- Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard University[49]
- Bruce Springsteen, Ocean County College [59]
- Cecil Andrus, Oregon State College
- Phil Batt, University of Idaho
- Chase Clark, University of Michigan
- Cormac McCarthy, University of Tennessee
Doctorates [edit]
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See also [edit]
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- ^ Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)
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External links [edit]
- Dropout Intervention and Language Minority Youth – From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
- The Dropout Cure: Students Seeing Their Own Future
- Economic Effects of Dropping out of School
- Big Cities Battle Dismal Graduation Rates
- National Drop Out Prevention Center
- Stanford University News - "You've got to find what you love," Jobs says
