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Attendance: Cause or Effect?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Robyn Mander-Ross
Robyn Mander-Ross*
Affiliation:
NSW Department of School Education, Sydney
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Koorie High School is a Government school. It is not the school's real name but it is the name I will be using for this article.

Koorie High School is an innercity comprehensive high school from Years 7-12 in Sydney. It has a total population of 344 students, 186 at the Intensive English Unit on a different site and 158 in the mainstream high school campus. Fifty-five percent of the 158 students are Aboriginal. There are also 32 students in the Back-To-School Program, an annex of the main high school. All of these students are Aboriginal. I will mainly be referring to the main high school and no reference will be made to the Intensive English Unit as they are not part of this study.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 1995 , pp. 30 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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