Invalsi: school leaving in Italy descends thanks to the girls, but the males arrange. And the suburbs sink

For the first time in history The percentage of young people who leave the school before the diploma has fallen below 10 percent: we are always behind the average, but not far from the EU finish for 2030 of 9 percent. And to pull the sprint are The girls, who get even better results than the average of their European peers (7.1 percent against 7.7). Good news? Not so much: why The males instead remain sensationally behind. Those who raise white flag before crossing the finish line are more than 12 percent nationally, 14.5 percent in the South: one pupil out of seven. This is only one of the most striking data that emerged during the Conference on the « improvement of the training offer » which took place today, Wednesday 28 May, at the Ministry of Education and merit. «School leaving is a mainly male phenomenon – he explains Roberto Ricci, president of the Valsi -. This is also the case in other countries, but in Italy the disadvantage is greater. For this it is necessary to implement targeted policies ». THE males are the weak link on which you have to intervene, and intervene urgently.

School abandonment is a complex phenomenon, which mainly affects the most disadvantaged bands of the population. As it is well -known The southern regions record clearly higher percentages than those of the Center and the North. But as Ricci explained, in reality « there are many north and many south ». And this applies to both the so -called explicit school leaving, that is, for those who withdraw, and for The many, too many students who arrive at the end of the journey with scarce or very little skills in both Italian and mathematics and English. It is what is called the so -called implicit dispersion: Young people with a diploma in your pocket equivalent to stroke paper. They are 2.5 percent in the Northeast, 3 in the Northwest, touch 12 percent in the South. But within these macroareas there are enormous differences. So much so that also two regions such as Lombardy and Piedmont which overall guarantee their pupils more adequate training than the national average, in reality « School fragility are hidden », concentrated especially in large metropolitan areas.

Take Milan and Turin: the percentage of dispersion implicit in the Lombard capital is 7.3 percent (against 2.2 at regional level); then that of Piedmontese even bales at 10.4 percent (against 3.4 of the regional data). If we then further widen the magnifying glass, we can see the huge gap between the center and the suburbs: in the less dear areas of Milan from a real estate point of view, the implicit dispersion touches peaks of 24 percent: one in four boy. While in the city center it is stopped at 1.4 percent. «The real challenge – explains Ricci – is to intervene with targeted actions looking for the fragility where there are, or above all in large urban centers, from Milan to Naples. Because in these cities there is the whole of Italy « . As? Intervening early, if possible already from the nest and kindergarten. Supporting the schools of the most difficult areas, involving families, supporting the most fragile with personalized approaches but at the same time also enhancing the excellence that have a positive impact on the whole class.

The Invalsi study – he commented The Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara on the sidelines of the meeting – demonstrates how the customization of teaching is essential to combat school leaving. Also through the use of artificial intelligence. Our goal is to increasingly enhance each student’s talents ».

To the fight against school leaving and educational poverty lA program entitled « W la school » has been dedicated to Community of Sant’Egidio for 2022 At the center of another conference that took place today in the Lupa room in Montecitorio. «The school has only one problem – he said Marco Impagliazzo, historian, university professor and president of Sant’Egidioremembering the words of Don Milani – The students who lose ». « But Let’s stop calling them missing – The former road master echoed him Marco Rossi Doria, president of the Foundation with children -. Talking about dispersed pupils suggests that they end up under an avalanche or that traces at sea are lost, while they are people who have a name, a surname and an address. Young people who were enrolled in school but then left. It is not a natural catastrophe, but an educational failure that calls us into question all as communityto ».