Paraphrasing Assignment

Paraphrasing Assignment 

  Original passages 

  1. A student is likely to drop out are family characteristics such as: socioeconomic status, family structure, family stress (e.g., death, divorce, family moves), and the mother's age. Students who come from low-income families, are the children of single, young, unemployed mothers, or who have experienced high degrees of family stress are more likely than other students to drop out of school. Of those characteristics, low socioeconomic status has been shown to bear the strongest relationship to students' tendency to drop out.     [Denise McKeon, NEA Research, February 2006]   

  2. The tendency for students to drop out is also associated with their school experiences. According to the U.S. Department of Education, students drop out of school for the following reasons: Dislike of school; low academic achievement; retention at grade level; a sense that teachers and administrators do not care about students; and inability to feel comfortable in a large, depersonalized school setting (1999).  [Denise McKeon, NEA Research, February 2006]     

 Sources  http://www.nea.org/home/13579.htm 

Paraphrases     

1. According to McKeon (2006), socioeconomic status, family structure, family stress (e.g., death, divorce, family moves), and the mother's age are the family characteristics that a student is probably to drop out of school.McKeon (2006) stated that there are characteristic which are from low-income families, are the children of single, young, unemployed mothers, or who have experienced high degrees of family stress are possible for students to drop out of school. This has shown that socioeconomic status has the strongest connection for students to drop out based on those characteristics.   

1.  In McKeon’s (2006) view, school experiences also related to students drop out of school. 'Dislike of school; low academic achievement; retention at grade level' (McKeon 2006) was also cited as reasons for school being unpopular among students.There are a few reasons that students drop out of school in the light of the U.S. Department of Education which are dislike of school; low academic achievement; retention at grade level; a sense that teachers and administrators do not care about students; and inability to feel comfortable in a large, depersonalized school setting (1999).                           

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References List     

1. Book  Rumberger, RW 2011, Dropping Out, Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It,  Harvard University Press, USA 

   E journal   

Williams, Jr., Thomas O.; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Kaui, Toni Marie. 2015 Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research. Jan- Apr, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p41-45. 5p. 3     

 3. Newspaper   

DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI , Rusli, Evelyn M, Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 6/4/2015, Vol. 265 Issue 129, pB1-B5. 2p. 2 Color Photographs.     

Magazines   

 Nathan Thornburgh/Shelbyville. 2006 ‘The number of high school students who leave before graduating is higher--much higher--than you think. Inside one town's struggle to reverse the tide’, Dropout Nation, Apr. 09, pp. 1-9