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McConnell, Bethany M.; Kubina, Richard M., Jr. – Preventing School Failure, 2014
School attendance is a rising issue in public schools. Students regularly absent from school can end up involved in destructive behaviors and dropout of school. Family characteristics are strong determining factors in students' school attendance. This presents the question, "Can family involvement improve public school students'…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Attendance, Family School Relationship, Family Characteristics
Iachini, Aidyn L.; Brown, Elizabeth Levine; Ball, Annahita; Gibson, Jennifer E.; Lize, Steven E. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2015
The current educational policy context in the United States necessitates that school-based programs prioritize students' academic outcomes. This review examined the quantitative research on school mental health (SMH) early interventions and academic outcomes for at-risk high school students. Seven articles met the inclusion criteria for this…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Mental Health, At Risk Students, High School Students
Ekstrand, Britten – Educational Review, 2015
Unauthorized absence from school, commonly labelled truancy, absenteeism, and dropout, is a problem that has been increasingly noted in recent years by the National Agency for Education, county councils, communities, and media in Sweden. It is also a prioritized issue in Europe and worldwide. Many students leave school without credentials or a…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Academic Persistence, Dropouts
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014
Governments, schools, and communities throughout Australia are working to improve school attendance among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students using numerous strategies. Currently, however, little is known about the effectiveness of these strategies and the key factors which underpin programs and strategies which are successful. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance Patterns, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
Kearney, Christopher A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2008
Problematic school absenteeism in youth has long been a complex and vexatious issue for psychologists, educators, and researchers from other disciplines. An examination of problematic school absenteeism from different perspectives over many decades has led to poor comparability across publications, policies, and assessment and intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Psychologists, Children, Public Policy
Harte, Austin J. – 1995
This document provides an overview of the student absentee problem in Canada. It extrapolates the principles and components from the vast range of intervention strategies and projects, and offers a strategy for improving school attendance. Literature on absenteeism written after 1985 demonstrates a shift of focus from the student as truant to the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Bush-Daniels, Shallonda – Online Submission, 2008
This literature review focuses on the overrepresentation of African-American males in special education. The most prevalent factors that contribute to this epidemic are poverty and the perceptions of teachers, their attitudes towards African-American men and the lack of their cultural understandings. Not only does this literature review focus on…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Family, Males, Special Education
Goldstein, Jeffrey S.; Little, Steven G.; Akin-Little, K. Angeleque – California School Psychologist, 2003
A major problem faced by schools across the country is student absenteeism. Although the problem is pervasive in American schools, the attention focused on this issue has been inadequate. Poor student attendance has far reaching effects on the individual, the school, and society in general. The intent of this paper is to document the problem,…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Attendance, School Psychology, Counselor Role
Hunt, Frances – Online Submission, 2008
This paper provides an in-depth review and analysis of literature on dropping out from school, and focuses on children who have gained access, but fail to complete a basic education cycle. The main discussion is around why and how children drop out from school. Here drop out is not presented as a distinct event, but rather a process where a range…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Dropout Research
Ahmed, Manzoor; Ahmed, Kazi Saleh; Khan, Nurul Islam; Ahmed, Romij – Online Submission, 2007
This country analytical review examines the key issues in access to and participation in primary and secondary education in Bangladesh, with a special focus on areas and dimensions of exclusion. Against a background of overall progress, particularly in closing the gender gap in primary and secondary enrollment, the research applies a conceptual…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Enrollment Trends, Educational Quality, Intervention