School Dropout and Completion
International Comparative Studies in Theory and Policy
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Introduction to the European Education Systems
Historically, in European nations school dropout was not an issue that received much research attention. Secondary school systems were largely designed to be selective and dropout was a natural consequence. Th...
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Introduction to the New World Education Systems
Dropout has attracted a lot of attention in countries sometimes referred to as the new world nations: the United States, Canada and Australia. Headlines such as ‘high school dropout crisis continues in US’, ‘high...
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School Dropout and Completion: An International Perspective
In most OECD countries, graduation from secondary school is now viewed as the minimum level of educational attainment needed for successful participation of young people in further study and work. This is beca...
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School Dropout and Inequality
Educational inequality is a persistent and common feature of all nations. Levels of educational attainment and academic success vary by family background, race and location in every system suggesting that ther...
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Pathways to School Completion: An International Comparison
Over recent decades, many western nations have stepped up their efforts to increase secondary school completion rates while maintaining high standards. How systems have approached this, and how successful they...
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School Dropout and Completion in Australia
In 2008, the newly elected federal government in Australia announced a national target of a 90% Year 12 (final school year) completion rate to be achieved by the year 2020, later brought forward to 2015 (Counc...
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Rurality and Inequality in Education
In the literature on educational inequality, differences between rural and urban locations receive little attention. Yet, in many systems, inequalities of place are both persistent and powerful. For example, i...
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School Reform and Inequality in Urban Australia
Over the past three decades, government schools in Australia have been exposed to the effects of several major public policy reforms aimed at improving school performance. One is the well-documented push to marke...
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Social Inequalities in Education
Theories of inequality in education offer more or less scope to public policy. They expose a field to intervention which may be relatively confined or more extensive, depending on what structures, processes an...
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Transforming School Education in China to a Mass System: Progress and Challenges
China is undergoing massive economic and social change. It is the world’s fastestgrowing major economy. According to one source, during the past three years China has accounted for one-third of global economic...
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Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Fußball in Großbritannien
Das Fußballstadion in Coventry, an einem Samstag im Dezember 1995, kurz vor 15 Uhr: Die Newcastle United Fans entfalten eine riesengroße Trikolore über den Köpfen der Zuschauer. David Ginola, neuester Supersta...
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Introduction: Commitment and the Illusion of Power
The essays in this book were originally contributions to a conference at the University of Warwick in September 1989, held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the German dramatist, orator a...
