School Dropout and Completion

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 Jarvinen.- Dropout in a small society: is the Icelandic case somehow different?.- Kristjana Stella Blondal, Jon Torfi Jonasson and Anne-Christin Tannhauser.- Early leaving, non-completion and completion in upper secondary education in Norway.- Eifred Markussen, Mari Wigum Froseth, Nina Sandberg, Berit Lodding 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 Nizinska, Ewa Kurantowicz.- School dropout and inequality.- Stephen Lamb.- Policies to reduce dropout and improve completion.- Eifred Markussen and Nina Sandberg.- Subject Index.