"Nobody Ever Asked Me Why I Left High School..." A Literature Review of Recent Qualitative Studies about Why Students Leave Conventional School

Wilder Research and High School for Recording Arts interviewed students and young people who left conventional high schools to understand why they left. Despite the geographic and racial diversity in our respondents, the 70 students and young people we interviewed said similar things about why they left conventional school. The similarities in findings between our respondent groups prompted us to examine the degree to which our findings align with findings from other studies that focus on why students leave conventional school

Aviation at sunrise: shortcomings of the American Air Forces in North Africa during TORCH compared to the Royal Air Force on Malta, 1941-42

This work examines the accidents and shortcomings inexperienced American pilots experienced during the opening days of Operation TORCH and attributes these mishaps to inadequate training and inexperience. Through a comparative approach, American training programs and text are contrasted against those of the British. By analyzing the base training methods of the RAF and observing their effectiveness when used in the North Africa and Mediterranean theatre at Malta provides a solid example where a well developed and battle exposure prove effective. This frame work served as a framework to compare the deficiencies of American airmen