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Reid, Ken – 2002
This book offers guidance on dealing with the problem of truancy and non-attendance. It provides examples of the latest ways that schools, teachers, education welfare officers, and local education authorities in the United Kingdom have worked to overcome their attendance problems, identifying 120 short-term solutions and several long-term…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Blank, Rolf K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Reports on a two-year study of magnet schools evaluating educational quality and desegregation. Findings show that magnet schools can improve the quality of education in urban school districts. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality
Brookes, Carolyn – 1990
An early childhood resource teacher implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of at-risk kindergartners and first and second graders in a low-income, inner-city area in central Florida. The intervention involved the transformation of self-contained, graded classrooms into primary units comprised of multi-age…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Students
