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Ken Reid - Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy - 9780415854474 - V9780415854474
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Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy

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Description for Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy Paperback. As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual pupil level and at the family level. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 42 black & white tables, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JNHT; JNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 174 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.

Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it’s imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis. Despite governments around the globe trying to address this situation, any improvements have been negligible and improvements in school attendance have been stubbornly hard to achieve.

As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual pupil ... Read more

  • The causes of non-attendance and truancy
  • Successful interventions and the evidence from research
  • Reflections on the attempts to find national solutions
  • Implementing home-school solutions
  • An agenda for the future

Supporting throughout with case-studies and workable solutions to the most demanding of situations, this book will be essential reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415854474
SKU
V9780415854474
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5

About Ken Reid
Professor Ken Reid has spent a lifetime in this field and was awarded an OBE for his Services to Education by the Queen in 2010 for this work. He has written over 150 articles in academic journals based on his research in this & related fields and he was the Chair of the Welsh Assembly Government Review into ... Read more

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