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ERIC Number: EJ314481
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Wastage in Primary Education from 1970 to 1980.
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, v14 n3 p347-67 1984
Study showed that levels of repetition and dropping out in the primary schools of 121 countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and the USSR from 1970 to 1980 remain very high. This educational wastage is costing a great deal of money. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, Student Promotion
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Africa; Asia; Caribbean; Europe; Latin America; Oceania; USSR