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Can Policy Promote Adoption or Outcomes of Evidence-Based Prevention Programming?: A Case Illustration of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Pas, Elise T.; Musci, Rashelle J.; Kush, Joseph; Ryoo, Ji Hoon – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study examined the impact of a state policy requiring that any school with a habitual truancy rate of 8% of higher to be trained in Tier 1 school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS). A regression discontinuity (RD) design was used to examine how the schools' mandate status related to SW-PBIS training as well as…
Descriptors: State Policy, Middle Schools, High Schools, Truancy
Mixed-Method Investigation of Truancy Intervention Program in a Midwest Public Urban School District
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Stephanie Scurlark-Belt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In pursuance of analyzing attendance at Midwest Public Urban School District (a pseudonym), the researcher investigated the high school's truancy intervention program's effectiveness. The research intervention program's goal was to find what worked in the program, what needed to be changed, and how practical the truancy intervention program was.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Truancy, Attendance, School Holding Power
Interim Evaluation of the Pilot Program of the Truancy Case Management Partnership Intervention in the District of Columbia
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Liberman, Akiva; Cahill, Meagan; Cramer, Lindsey – Urban Institute, 2012
The Case Management Partnership Initiative (CMPI) addresses chronic truancy by linking truant ninth graders and their families to social services and case management, along with regular interagency case management meetings. A pilot was conducted at Anacostia and Ballou High Schools in 2011-2012. The implementation evaluation found that the pilot…
Descriptors: Truancy, Pilot Projects, Social Services, Program Effectiveness
Truancy Rates and Truancy Reduction in the District of Columbia. Testimony before the Committee of the Whole and the Committee of the Judiciary of the Council of the District of Columbia
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Liberman, Akiva – Urban Institute, 2012
High rates of truancy at some DC schools are receiving considerable attention. The Family Court cannot realistically be a primary response to the chronic truancy of thousands of chronically truant high-school students, Senior Fellow Akiva Liberman of the Justice Policy Center told the City Council. Liberman commented that family-based…
Descriptors: Truancy, High School Students, High Schools, Courts
Evaluation of the Pilot Program of the Truancy Case Management Partnership Initiative in the District of Columbia, 2011-12
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Liberman, Akiva; Cahill, Meagan – Urban Institute, 2012
This evaluation of the Case Management Partnership Initiative (CPMI) found that the program successfully linked high-need families with services designed to prevent truancy. The truancy prevention program, implemented at Anacostia and Ballou High Schools in 2011-2012, links chronically truant ninth graders and their families to social services and…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Grade 9, Program Implementation
Schoolwide Intervention to Reduce Chronic Tardiness at the Middle and High School Levels
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Tyre, Ashli; Feuerborn, Laura; Pierce, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2011
When many students are tardy at the secondary level, teachers must continually restart instruction or delay beginning instructional periods throughout the school day. To address the considerable amount of instructional time lost caused by high rates of tardiness, the authors investigated the results of schoolwide intervention to reduce student…
Descriptors: Intervention, Tribally Controlled Education, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Program Effectiveness