1st Edition

Managing School Attendance Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy

By Ken Reid Copyright 2014
248 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: An overview of School Attendance  2. The causes of non-attendance & truancy  3. Reflections on National Initiatives: The attempts to find national solutions  4. What needs to be done  5. Successful Interventions: The Evidence from research  6. Towards School-Based Solutions: Managing attendance properly  7. Some school change strategies on Attendance: better monitoring & outcomes  8. Case studies  9. Individual Pupil Initiatives  10 Home-School Solutions  11. A future agenda  12. Managing school attendance & combating non-attendance: Conclusions

Biography

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 School Behaviour and Attendance and has more recently, written a special Report for the Minister of Education and Skills in Wales on this subject. He is currently the Advisor to the Welsh Government on school behaviour & attendance. He has previously published several books for Routledge.