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Burnt Out and Left Behind: Lost Boys, Exhausted Girls, and the Broken Promise of College

By Ilana Miriam Horwitz, Kaylee Matheny
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By Ilana Miriam Horwitz, Kaylee Matheny
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Why working-class youth don’t finish college—and what can make the difference.

Headlines proclaim that girls are displacing boys in college. But that’s not the whole story. Drawing on a landmark decade-long study of more than three thousand young Americans and the personal stories behind the numbers, Ilana M. Horwitz and Kaylee T. Matheny reveal that among working-class families, boys disengage early from school, disconnecting from the adults and institutions that could keep them on track. ...

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