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The Impact of Economic Inequality on Early School Dropout
Melania Verde
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2025.11.006
University of Messina, Messina, Italy
The overall improvement, recorded in recent years, at European and national level, of the early school leaving, should not cause neglect of two aspects: the strong weight of internal disparities (9.6% is the European average, 11.5% is the average in Italy) and the lack of skills; in all European countries, low levels of socio-economic status are accompanied by high percentages in terms of poor skills. De facto, the condition of socio-economic, cultural. and educational poverty of the family very frequently represents the main “barrier” for a student, that feeds (and does not contrast) the early school leaving. Furthermore, this paper initiates a first reflection on the role of digitalisation, certainly, decisive in reducing the digital divide, as one of the multiple aspects of the implicit dispersion, but it means a resource or rather a limit in relation to the explicit one.
dropout, education, digitalisation, family background
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