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School Dropout Prevention and Prevention Applications

Tayli Asli

Abant İzzet Baysal University Education Faculty

Bolu, 2008

Web Article

English

English

Identification of students’ at risk

School drop outs are more or less a common educational problem among any community. The priority of many communities is to reduce the drop out rates. Actually, the drop out rate is in accordance to the quality of the educational system. In order to solve this problem, educators possess: academic standing programs and perpetuation proceeding implementations, psychological counseling services, post-school pedagogic clubs, peer didactic quality, altruistic behavior development, behavioral management, recklessness education, professional education, alternative school programs etc. a lot of preventions and intervention methods. Therefore, school administrators, teachers, parents, consultants and other educational institutes have to hold together because of the complex and totalitarian nature of school drop outs.

This research stresses the importance of education, the development level of countries and the educational opportunities which are offered to the students. It also mentions that education should be free for every person and it also considers the issue from an equally perspective. While the education, one should overcome academic problems. The reality of a high drop out rate in country shows that there is no efficient profit of education and it needs urgently a reduction of the rate. In order to prevent the drop outs, students must be guided correctly throughout their education. At last, it is mentioned that further researches from other regions are needed.

Murat Demirbaş

Kırıkkale University

Researcher