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Arthurs, Nikie; Patterson, Jonathan; Bentley, Alex – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2014
This article, written by three research-active teachers with the support of their academic partner, interrogates the achievement-attendance link in the most recent government quantitative data for secondary schools in England: persistent absentees stands at 6.6% for all children, but it raises to 9% for students who are classed as "Pupil…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Secondary School Students, Statistical Analysis
Kosters, Marvin H. – American Enterprise, 1994
Illustrates, through text and graphs, that many striking variations are submerged beneath overall figures of poverty rates. The substantial differences in poverty rate according to race and ethnicity are, in large part, the consequences of major differences in family types and work situations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged