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Åsa Sundelin; Joakim Lindgren; Lisbeth Lundahl – European Education, 2023
This article aims to increase knowledge of ways to counter school absenteeism and early school leaving. It analyses stories of youths who either attended or probably would be referred to a Swedish remedial program because of failure to complete compulsory education. Histories of school absenteeism were frequent in both groups. Most participating…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Remedial Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
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Jasinska-Maciazek, Aleksandra; Hawrot, Anna; Marchlik, Paulina; Tomaszewska-Pekala, Hanna; Zóltak, Tomasz – Research Papers in Education, 2022
The aim of the study was to assess the scale of various interrupted schooling trajectories among Polish youth, and to identify the differences and similarities between students following these trajectories and their reasons for interrupting education. In a dataset of 5,414 young Polish adults, we identified 343 (6.3%) learners who left…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Reentry Students
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Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects, 2022
The "hole-in-the-wall" experiments of 1999, as named by the popular media, started with an Internet-connected computer being embedded in a wall facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. Several studies showed that groups of children, when given access to the Internet, can learn by themselves. Children's academic marks improved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Internet, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
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Vinas-Forcade, Jennifer; Mels, Cindy; Van Houtte, Mieke; Valcke, Martin; Derluyn, Ilse – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
In 2016, Uruguay started gathering longitudinal student data to improve educational trajectories by putting in place an 'early alert' system. Underlying the system is the understanding that prior schooling predicts likelihood of grade repetition and grade repetition predicts later school dropout, while close follow-up can help prevent both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, At Risk Students, Academic Failure
Eberts, Randall W.; Brown, Zachary – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022
This report evaluates the impact of intensive student support services provided by Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo (CISK) to elementary students of Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS). These intensive services typically follow a case-management format and include activities related to academic assistance, basic needs, enrichment/motivation, and…
Descriptors: Pupil Personnel Services, Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Outcomes of Education