Febreze Squad
Divining Rods
Hyman, Ray, and Elizabeth G. Cohen. "WATER-WITCHING IN THE UNITED STATES." American Sociological Review 22.6 (1957): 719-724. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 5 Oct. 2010.
Water Witching USA. Evon Z. Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University. University of Chicago Press
Dropout Rates
The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels. James J. Heckman (American economist and Nobel laureate) and Paul A. Lafontaine. Institute for the Study of Labor. Bonn, Germany. December 2007.
Although this discussion focuses on graduation rates, and not dropout rates, it brings up many pertinent points when researching and assessing findings. It compares different statistics such as if GED recipients are counted towards the graduation rate or not. It compares the results obtained by using different methods, and shows how they can differ by up to 30%. Using these different statistics, the authors show that there has actually been a decline in graduation rates since the 60s.
And then I found a response to the above discussion.
The Real Dropout Rate – And Why Some Students Should Drop Out of School. Steve Sailer (journalist for the American Conservative). VDARE Foundation. 1 January 2008.
This author puts the same statistics in terms of dropout rates, saying they have increased since the 70s (increase from 20s to 70s but has worsened since then).
White House Social Statistics Briefing Room. "Drop Out Rates." National Center for Education Statistics. Web
Interesting article complete with a clear representation of rates in chart form. This says that dropout rates have decreased since the 1970s.
