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Year 12 not for all students.(EDUCATION)(Brief article)
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Youth Studies Australia
- Article date:
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March 1, 2008
- Author:
- Gross, Kate
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Completing Year 12 may not be beneficial to all young people, and the broadening of school curricula to increase student retention rates may be counterproductive, according to Gary Marks, a researcher with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Melbourne Institute. In a study published in the journal School Effectiveness and School Improvement in December 2007, Dr Marks found that social factors such as socioeconomic status and gender had more influence on a student's decision to leave school than the characteristics of schools themselves. Rather than directing resources into modifying school curricula to keep potential ...