The Dropout Phenomenon: An Overview

Abstract

Education is the medium that helps us to gain techniques, skills, and confidence to know and understand our responsibilities towards society and the nation. Without education society becomes weak. The strength of every society depends on the extent of educated and scholarly people living in it. This review describes school dropouts with special attention to the reasons why children or youth leave school and issues faced by countries worldwide. 29 research papers are included in the present study. Dropping out of school is not only a concern of one individual or family but it is a problem of a society and ultimately of a nation. Several nations including India are finding innovative solutions, right from predictability to prevention by embracing technology and early warning systems to battle this problem.