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Preventing Truancy and Dropout among Urban Middle School Youth: Understanding Community-Based Action from the Student's Perspective
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Rodriguez, Louie F.; Conchas, Gilberto Q. – Education and Urban Society, 2009
This case study explores how a community-based truancy prevention program mediates against absenteeism, truancy, and dropping out and positively transforms the lives of Black and Latina/Latino middle school youth. Findings suggest that community-school partnerships are critical in the quest to combat truancy and the alarming dropout rate among…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, African American Children, Intervention, Truancy