Ce que ne mesurent pas les politiques publiques

Abstract

The struggle against students dropping out of school is part of a wave of evaluation of public policies (EPP) begun in 2012 by the General Secretary for the modernization of public action (SGMAP). Every year, 110,000 students leave the educational system without getting a diploma. But several months or several years after the break in their schooling, some students come back in response to a programme aimed at students who leave school without a diploma. The evaluation of this programme always bears on the programme's ability to find jobs for the participants. Sometimes it bears on the effects of the ongoing programme, but never on the subjective effects ex post facto. Based on the interviews conducted with young people who did participate in a programme aimed at helping those who leave school early, we can show that there are reasons to appreciate what the programmes provide for participants, other than just in terms of figures, and we cannot conclude that such programmes are poorly designed or ineffective

Keywords

• leaving school without a diploma
• young people without a diploma
• resources for training
• evaluation
• criteria