“…A large number of findings indicate that, regardless of the amount of time and effort invested in increasing educational equity, dropout rates are higher in students from poorer families (Blue & Cook, 2004;Cataldi, Laird & KewalRamani, 2009;DeWitte, Cabus, Thyssen, Groot & van den Brink, 2013;Dorn, 1996;Ekstrom, Goertz, Pollack & Rock, 1986;Entwisle, Alexander & Steffel Olson, 2005;Ishitani & Snider, 2006;Ou & Reynolds, 2006;Teese, & Walstab, 2002) and the families belonging to national minorities (Finn, 1989). The same trend can be expected in Serbia, since a smaller percentage of Roma children are included in both primary (Pešikan & Ivić, 2016) and early and pre-school education (UNICEF, 2014).…”