Moving beyond dropout towards school completion: An integrative review of data-based interventions

School Psychology Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 342-364

  Lehr, Camilla A ^a   Hansen, Anastasia ^a   Sinclair, Mary F ^a   Christenson, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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