All posts by Rachel Williamson-Dean
What happens when your classmates keep leaving? The impact of school transience on pupils ‘left behind’
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The claim last week by National Party leader Christopher Luxon that 100,000 New Zealand schoolchildren were chronically truant quickly turned into an argument about terminology, statistics and how to interpret them. In fact, it appears Luxon was referring…