Excerpt from Retardation in Cincinnati Public Elementary Schools More than half of these children were absent three weeks or more during the school year. The average, absence of the children who failed. Was 25 days, compared with an average absence of 5 days on 'the part of children who passed. (pages 8 io. Illness was said to be responsible for four fifths of the absence, and home conditions for practically all the rest. (page II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.