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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Dropout in Primary and Secondary School: A Global Issue and an Obstacle to the Achievement of the Education for All Goals
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Education for All (an international movement of governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media) set objectives in Jomtien (1990) and reaffirmed in Dakar (2000) that, among other things, work towards all children having access to free, compulsory, good quality primary education by 2015. School dropout may hinder the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Holding Power, Elementary Education, Illiteracy
Dropout in Primary and Secondary School: A Global Issue and an Obstacle to the Achievement of the Education for All Goals
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Bella, Nicole; Mputu, Hilaire – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
In the second of a two-part series, this paper looks at the global spread of school dropout and at the factors that keep elementary school-aged children outside education. In order to have a more complete picture of the dropout problem, it necessary to take into account pupils who do not continue their education beyond primary education or who…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Education, Students, Compulsory Education