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Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

One boy out of five doesn’t have a diploma, 100 million euros to the regions that are more in trouble. Escape from school

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Santarpia Valentina

PUBLISHER:

Corriere della Sera

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

Rome, 3rd September 2012

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

Newspaper article

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

Italian

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

The problem of students “escaping from school”, as the title of the present article itself declares, affects the 2% of the student population in Italy. The statistical data, collected by the Italian Institute for Statistics (ISTAT), show with clear evidence that Italy is facing a dramatic situation that places the country in the 4th position as one of the European states with the highest rate of early school leaving (coming only after Malta, Portugal and Spain). The journalist who wrote the article takes a realistic picture of the drama of Italian school system, which has to bear an old, rooted and too widespread problem. In the meantime, this leads to an enormous waste of resources, right when the current crisis has brought to the cutbacks for most of the public sectors. The data contained in the article show how the phenomenon of the “scholastic drop out” affects all the Italian regions, with the highest rates recorded in the South part of Italy and in the suburbs of the biggest cities. The reasons explaining this issue are to be found in the cracks of the Italian society structure and in the decadence of the educational system. The journalist quotes Maria Grazia Nardiello’s (Department Chief of the Ministry of Education) words, according to whom the real problem of the Italian school is the extreme importance given to the humanistic studies provided by the classic upper secondary schools and the consequent downgrading of technical and professional schools. In this moment of crisis it is necessary, in Nardiello’s opinion, to revalue a more technical teaching model that orients itself towards the economic and labour tradition of Italy. Finally the article deals with the funds that the Italian government will design for the most affected regions, so that all the principles actors involved (principals and teachers above all) can build up projects to stimulate pupils to remain at school until the end of the study cycle.

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

The present article draws a very precise image of the Italian students’ condition, due to the disadvantaged familiar and social backgrounds: this leads the children to early leave the school (although sometimes they are compelled to do it). The journalist addresses the theme in a very accurate way, collecting data and statistic percentages that only lead to one conclusion: the “early school leaving” problem in Italy has a deep origin and it menaces to lower consistently the national growth level. In this context the crisis plays an important part, depriving the scholastic institution of the tools that are necessary to face the “escape” from school. The journalist underlines the emergency situation in which the country finds itself; Italy mostly needs a prompt intervention by the national officers, which cannot be delayed anymore. As others comments to the article noticed, the explanation proposed by the doctress Maria Grazia Nardiello appears not to deal with the negative impact that the current economic crisis in Italy has on students’ lives and choices, regarding continuing their studies or not.

WHERE TO FIND IT:

http://
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NAME OF COMPILER:

Sara Ciabattini

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Pixel Association

ROLE:

Project Assistant



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4 mars 2013

Lancement du Module 5 “Soutien externe et coopération”

Au cours du mois de mars 2013, les partenaires forment les enseignants impliqués dans le projet au Module 5 "Soutien externe et coopération". Le module examine les ressources et soutiens externes pour les enseignants et élèves pour les aider à prévenir le décrochage scolaire.

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