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Building Reading Confidence in Adolescents

The authors present a unique framework of research-based strategies for building reading self-efficacy by focusing on four important concepts: confidence, independence, metacognition, and stamina.

The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools

(2007)

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The High Cost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools shows, that if the dropouts from the class of 2005-2006 had instead earned their diplomas with their classmates, the nation's economy would have benefited from an additional $309 billion in additional income over their lifetimes.

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