New Approaches to Truancy Prevention in Urban Schools [electronic resource] / Charles Walls.

This digest explores truancy in the urban context, examines the different types and reasons for truancy, and reviews the new ways that researchers and intervention programs are addressing this problem. No national data on truancy rates exist, but many larger cities report staggeringly high rates. Th...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Walls, Charles
Corporate Author:	ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, 2003.
Series:	ERIC digest.
Subjects:	Agency Cooperation. Attendance Patterns. Elementary Secondary Education. Intervention. Juvenile Courts. Juvenile Justice. Minority Group Children. Truancy. Urban Schools.