What is it about?
Why students at risk choose to leave schools and how South Australian policy for 15 years has understood the nature of the problem and what to do about it in policy and practice.
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Why is it important?
The cost of one student who leaves school early over a lifetime unable to secure work has been calculated at 1 million dollars in lost income and societal costs.
Perspectives
If policy assumptions about the nature of the early school leaving problem have 'blind-spots' or incorrect assumptions then the policy and practice repercussions can actually damage the lives of young people targeted by the policy.
Andrew Bills
Flinders University
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This page is a summary of: Social inclusion education policy in South Australia: What can we learn?, Australian Journal of Education, February 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0004944116689165.
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