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Download full textWalls, Charles – 2003
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. The relationship between race or income and truancy…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
