School Dropout and Completion International Comparative Studies in Theory and Policy /
School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school qualifications. Yet large numbers o...
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Dordrecht :
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2011.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- School dropout and completion: an international perspective
- Stephen Lamb and Eifred Markussen
- PART 1: STRUCTURES AND PATHWAYS
- Pathways to school completion: an international comparison an international comparison
- Stephen Lamb
- PART 2: CASE STUDIES
- Introduction to the European education systems
- Stephen Lamb
- The question of school dropout: a French perspective
- Marianne Blanchard
- School dropout and completion in Spain
- Raphael Merino and Maribel Garcia
- Towards compulsory participation: the case of England
- Alice Sullivan and Lorna Unwin
- Participation in post-compulsory learning in Scotland
- David Raffe
- Germany’s educational system and the problem of dropouts: institutional segregation and program diversification
- Andrea Reupold and Rudi Tippelt
- School dropout in secondary education: the case of Poland
- Piotr Mikiewicz
- School dropout and completion in Switzerland
- Elisabetta Pagnossin
- Introduction to the Nordic education systems
- Eifred Markussen
- Dropout and completion in upper secondary education in Finland
- Risto Rinne and Tero Järvinen
- Dropout in a small society: is the Icelandic case somehow different?
- Kristjana Stella Blondal, Jón Torfi Jónasson and Anne-Christin Tannhäuser
- Early leaving, non-completion and completion in upper secondary education in Norway
- Eifred Markussen, Mari Wigum Frøseth, Nina Sandberg, Berit Lødding and Jorunn Spord Borgen
- Introduction to the New World education systems
- Stephen Lamb
- High school dropouts in the United States
- Russ Rumberger
- Educational systems and school dropout in Canada
- 281 Michel Janosz, Sherri L. Bisset, Linda S. Pagani, and Ben Levin
- School dropout and completion in Australia
- Stephen Lamb
- PART 3: PROGRAMS, EQUITY AND POLICY
- Vocational education and training: friend or foe of the educationally disadvantaged?
- Richard Teese
- Pathways to completion for school dropouts
- John Polesel, Adrianna Nizińska, Ewa Kurantowicz
- School dropout and inequality
- Stephen Lamb
- Policies to reduce dropout and improve completion
- Eifred Markussen and Nina Sandberg
- Subject Index.
