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Naming and Blaming Early School Leavers: An Analysis of Education Policies, Discourses and Practices in Spain

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Early school leaving (ESL) is one of the main challenges facing the Spanish education system. With 24, 9% of the population made up by 18–24 year olds who have not completed compulsory secondary schooling or pursued further or higher education,1 Spain thereby doubles the ESL percentage regarding the EU-27 (12. 8%), and is far from the European Benchmark set for 10% ESL across the EU and 15% for Spain by the year 2020.

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Tarabini, A. (2015). Naming and Blaming Early School Leavers: An Analysis of Education Policies, Discourses and Practices in Spain. In: Kupfer, A. (eds) Power and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415356_9

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