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.- 281Michel 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 schooldropouts.- 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.
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Paul Downes, Guofang Li, Lore Van Praag, Stephen Lamb, Ireland) Downes, Paul (Dublin City University, Canada) Li, Guofang (University of British Columbia, Netherlands) Van Praag, Lore (Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Lore van Praag