Researchers at the Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland - based community development nonprofit organization, found that over half of the district's African American boys
exhibited one or more
early -
warning signs of a high school dropout.
Two studies have identified groups of girls
exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and
early adolescence and having an increased risk for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an
early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending for such girls may be stronger than that among comparable boys and that such
early problem behavior in girls should be considered a significant
warning sign of potential future problems.62