ESL Library

European Policy Papers

• CEDEFOP (2014): Early leaving from vocational education and training – Sweden. ReferNet, Skolverket, Sweden.
• Council Recommendation of 28 June 2011 on policies to reduce early school leaving (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/C 191/01)
• Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee
• Eurofound (2012): NEETs – Young people not in employment, education or training: Characteristics, costs and policy responses in Europe. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
• European Commission (2013): Country Questionnaires. Thematic Working Group on Early School Leaving (TWG on ESL), Brüssels.
• European Commission (2013a): Early warning systems in Europe: practice, methods and lessons. Thematic Working Group on Early School Leaving (TWG on ESL), Brussels.
• European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice/CEDEFOP (2014): Tackling Early Leaving from Education and Training in Europe: Strategies, Policies and Measures. Eurydice and CEDEFOP Report. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
• Preventing and re-integrating early school leavers - a meta evaluation of policies implemented in 7 European Member States -
• Eurydice (2012): Strategies to counter bullying.
• Reducing early school leaving: Key messages and policy support. Final Report of the Thematic Working Group on Early School Leaving November 2013

National Policy Reports

Hungary

• A végzettség nélküli iskolaelhagyás elleni középtávú stratégia

Ireland

• Education Welfare Act 2000, Ireland

Malta

• An Early School Leaving Strategy for Malta. Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Employment, 2012

The Netherlands

• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science The Netherlands (2014 March): The approach to Early School Leaving. Policy in the Netherlands and the provisional figures of the 2012-2013 performance agreements.
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (2013 July) : Key Figures 2008-2012. Education, Culture and Science.
• Vuure, P.v., Kaar, R.v.h. (2012): The Netherlands: ERM Comparative Analytical Report on Recent Policy Developments related to those Not in Employment, Education and Training (NEET), HIS.

Poland

• Bureau for Academic Recognition and International Exchange (2002): The education system in Poland before and after the reform of 1999. Internet Archive. (Retrieved August 13, 2012.)

Research Papers

• Department for education (2014): Behaviour and discipline in schools, advice for headteachers and school staff
  Keywords: students behaviour, school climate, UK
  
• Bekker, S. (2010): European Employment Observatory EEO Review: Youth Employment Measures, 2010 Netherlands. ReflecT, Tilburg University.
• Brussels, 26.2.2015 SWD(2015) 36 final COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Country Report Hungary 2015 Including an In-Depth Review on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances {COM(2015) 85 final}
• Burrus, J., Roberts, R.D. (2012): Dropping Out of High School: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Remediation Strategies. R&D Connections, 18. February.
• Community Health Systems Resource Group, The Hospital for Sick Children For the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, Special Education Branch Toronto (2005): Early School Leavers: Understanding the Lived Reality of Student Disengagement from Secondary School. Final Report, Canada.
• Country Reports by the Institute for Educational Research and Development, TÁMOP, 2014
• Crain-Dorough, M. L., (2003): A study of dropout characteristics and school-level effects on dropout prevention, Dissertation, USA.
• Cross, A. E. (2010): Exploring the virtual landscape for social change in higher ed. A thesis. B.U.S University of Maine.
• Day, S., Sandals, L., Kettlewell, K., Easton, C., Durbin, B. (2012): The evaluation of the raising the participation age locally-led delivery projects (RPA) 2011 to 2012: survey and case study findings. ISOS Partnership & National Foundation for Educational.
• Department for education and skills (2013): Anti-bullying procedures for primary and post-primary schools.
• Fischer, Thomas - Heid, Simon: Reduction of Early Shool Leaving of Young People.
• Fortin, L., Marcotte, D., Potvin, P., Royer, E., & Joly, J. (2005): Typology of Students at Risk of Dropping out of School: Description by personal, family and school factors. European Journal of Psychology of Educatio. XXI. 4. 363-383.
• Hattie, J. (2003): Teachers make a difference. Paper delivered at the 2003 ACER Conference 'Building Teacher Quality'.
• Heid, S., Fischer, T. (2012): Reduction of Early School Leaving of Young People. Country Analysis and Reports, Germany.
• Heppen, J. B., Bowles Therriault, S., (2008): Developing Early Warning Systems to Identify Potential High School Dropouts. American Institutes for Research.
• Hermándy-Berencz Judit, Juhász Judit (2013): Study visit to the Netherlands. QALL project, Tempus Public Foundation, Budapest
• Horn Dániel (2008): A lengyel oktatási szerkezet változásai a rendszerváltás óta. MTA KTI Kongresszus, Budapest
• Iannelli, C. (2002):Parental Education and Young People’s Educational and Labour Market Outcomes: A Comparison across Europe . Arbeitspapiere, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung.
• Iver, M. A., Mac Iver, D. J. (2009): Beyond the indicators: An integrated school-level approach to dropout prevention. Arlington, VA: The Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education.
• Janosz, M., Le Blanc, M., Boulerice, B., & Tremblay, R. E. (2000): Predicting different types of school dropouts: A typological approach with two longitudinal samples. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92. 171-190.
• Jakubowski, M. et. al. (2010).The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland. The World Bank Human Development Network, Education Team.
• Janowski, A. (1999). Poland. In: Smith, P.K., Morita, Y., Junger-Tas, J., Olweus, O., Catalano, R., Slee, P. (1999): The Nature of School Bullying. A Cross-National Perspective.
• Judge, B. (2012): NEWB: One Child, One Team, One Plan (OCOTOP). TUI Comments. Letter of Teachers’ Union of Ireland to NEWB.
• Jugović, I. and Doolan, K. (2013): Is there anything specific about early school leaving in Southeast Europe? A review of research and policy. European Journal of Education, 48 (3), 363-377.
• Kostka, J., (2014): Roma Rights 2013: National Roma Integration Strategies: What Next? National Roma Integration Strategy: Do Good Intentions Fail?
• Lannert Judit (2013): A korai iskolaelhagyás elleni stratégia és a koragyermekkori nevelés. QALL- Végzettséget mindenkinek! projekt, TEMPUS Közalapítvány, Budapest.
• Maksimović, I., Bratic, G. (2013): . Country report: Serbia. A project implemented with the support of LSE Enterprise European Training Foundation.
• OECD (2010): Vignettes on Education Reforms: England, Poland and Sweden. Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States.
• OECD (2012): PISA 2012 Results: What Makes Schools Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices Volume IV.
• OECD (2013): Education Indicators in Focus – 2013/04 (April)
• OECD (2014): Resources, policies and practices in Sweden’s schooling system: an in depth analysis of PISA 2012 results.
• Peer Review on Early School Leaving. Background paper, Berlin, Germany, Submitted: March 2013
• Pirchio Sapienza, S., Passiatore, Y., Tritrini, Ch., Taeschner, T. (2013): The Role of the Relationship between Parents and Educators for Child Behaviour and Wellbeing. International Journal about Parents in Education, Copyright 2013 by European Research Network about Parents in Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, 145-155.
• PISA in Focus (2014/09): Are disadvantaged students more likely to repeat grades?
• Preventing early school leaving. SALAR, 2013
• Rumberger, R., Ah Lim, S., (2008): Why Students Drop Out of School: A Review of 25 Years of Research. Flyer, California Dropout research Project, University of California Linguistic Minority research institute.
• Salomvári György (2014): A lemorzsolódás kutatás módszertani lehetőségeinek feltérképezése a köznevelési információs rendszer nyilvántartásai alapján. Elemző tanulmány, Oktatáskutató és fejlesztő Intézet, Budapest.
• Skolverket (2011): Evaluation of anti-bullying methods. Sweden.
• Skolverket (2012): Educational equity in the Swedish school system? Sweden.
• Strand, M. A-S., Granlund, M. (2013): The School Situation for Students with a High Level of Absenteeism in Compulsory School: Is There a Pattern in Documented Support? Jönköping University.
• Student Individualized Growth Model and Assessment (SIGMA). A Microsoft Education Analytics Platform Approach to Students at Risk May. 2010.
• Taylor, C. (2012): Improving attendance in school. Department for education, UK.
• Theme Group Youth in Working Life (2013): 10 Reasons for dropping-out. Ungdomsstyrelsen, Stockholm.
• Traag, Tanja (2012): Early school-leaving in the Netherlands. A multidisciplinary study of risk and protective factors explaining early school-leaving. Statistics Netherlands, The Hague/Heerlen.
• Uekawa, K. (2010): Creating an Early Warning System: Predictors of Dropout in Delaware. Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, Regional Educational Laboratory Mid- Mac.
• United Nations Development Programme Bratislava Regional Center, the Roma Initiatives Office and the Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma program of the Open Society Foundations, and the Central European University/Center for Policy Studie (2014): Faces and Causes of Marginalization of the Roma in Local Settings: Hungary – Romania – Serbia. Contextual inquiry to the UNDP/FRA Regional Roma Survey 2011 in CEE and SEE October 2012 – April 2014.
• Vitaro, F., Larocque, D., Janosz, M., Tremblay, R.E. (2001): Negative Social Experiences and Dropping Out of School. Educational Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 4, Research Unit on Children’s Psycho-social Maladjustment, University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada.
• Wondratschek et.al. (2014): The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden.