School Dropout and Completion International Comparative Studies in Theory and Policy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lamb, Stephen (Editor), Markussen, Eifred (Editor), Teese, Richard (Editor), Polesel, John (Editor), Sandberg, Nina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.