The Error of Truancy Rates
In The News, Politics Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
“Truancy rate reaches record level” declares the BBC education website. We are told that, “The truancy statistics for the first two terms of the last school year show 1.03% of school sessions were missed without permission, up from 0.97%” and “show the rate of unauthorised absences as running higher than any annual figure since 1994, [...]