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Across many low- and middle-income countries, a sizable share of young people drop out of school before completing a full course of basic education. Early warning systems that accurately identify students at risk of dropout and support them with targeted interventions have shown results and are in widespread use in high-income contexts. This paper presents impact evaluation results from an early warning system pilot program in Guatemala, a middle-income country where nearly 40 percent of sixth graders drop out before completing ninth grade. The pilot program, which was implemented in 17 percent of Guatemala's primary schools and largely leveraging existing government resources, reduced the dropout rate in the transition from primary to lower secondary school by 4 percent (1.3 percentage points) among schools assigned to the program, and by 9 percent (3 percentage points) among program compliers. Although the effect size is relatively modest, the low cost of the program (estimated at less than US$3 per student) and successful implementation at scale make this a promising and cost-effective approach for reducing dropout in resource-constrained contexts like Guatemala.
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Mentoring --- Student assistance programs --- Student growth (Academic achievement) --- School attendance --- Mentorat --- Fréquentation scolaire --- United States.
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"Dès que la reprise de scolarité est abordée, l'angoisse de Nathan le déborde.", "Maximilien est victime de harcèlement depuis l'école élémentaire.", "Tous les matins, la mère accompagne Milo, ils entrent dans la cour, puis repartent.", "Famille et collège vivent le non-retour de Hugo à l'école comme un échec." Pression éducative, anxiété de performance, phobie sociale, somatisation, sentiment de harcèlement, angoisse de séparation, phobie de l'école, difficultés relationnelles conduisent parfois des enfants ou des adolescents au Refus scolaire anxieux. Des symptômes de plus en plus visibles obligent l'école à s'ajuster à ces situations douloureuses pour les élèves, leurs parents et leurs enseignants. Claire Rhode et Frédérique Bodiou témoignent ici de leur expérience d'un métier émergent. Elles livrent quelques récits de situations d'élèves accompagnés, parmi tant d'autres, pour témoigner de leur souffrance et du besoin infini et impérieux de solliciter les partenaires et travailler en synergie avec différents professionnels vers le mieux-être de ces jeunes en devenir. Elles proposent des analyses pertinentes pour la prise en charge complexe de ces situations toutes vécues de façons singulières. Elles donnent des clefs, des outils, pour l'accompagnement pédagogique par toutes les personnes concernées de ces élèves en Refus scolaire anxieux. Cet ouvrage pose les bases de la responsabilité sociale, pédagogique et politique de ce problème, à considérer comme un problème de santé publique."
School phobia --- School attendance --- Child psychology --- Phobie scolaire --- Accompagnement socio-éducatif --- Absentéisme scolaire --- Anxiété --- Enseignement. --- Phobie sociale --- Troubles phobiques --- Psychologie de l'enfant. --- Chez l'enfant. --- Enfant.
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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children's probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a peak among those whose education was no longer compulsory. For schoolchildren in that age group, the negative effect of COVID-19 lockdown measures is likely to be permanent, which, if not reversed, will undermine the quality of the economy-wide future labor force. The paper also finds evidence that in the child marriage-prone North-West part of Nigeria that these measures increased gender inequality in education among children aged 12 to 18. This result suggests that COVID-19 lockdown measures may exacerbate harmful traditional practices such as child marriage.
Access and Equity in Basic Education --- Access To Education --- Coronavirus --- COVID-19 --- Distance Learning --- Dropout Rate --- Education --- Education For All --- Educational Technology and Distance Education --- Effective Schools and Teachers --- Gender --- Gender and Education --- Gender Equity --- Gender Inequality --- Lockdown --- Remote Learning --- School Attendance --- School Closure
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