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Direct linkShute, Jonathan W.; Cooper, Bruce S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The usual view is that truants are lost and troubled juveniles with psychological problems. While the authors agree that many well-known sociological and environmental factors promote truancy, they also confront more disconcerting causes: curriculum and pedagogy. Truancy is much too widespread to continue classifying it as the behavior of social…
Descriptors: Truancy, Classification, Decision Making, Behavior Problems
Nauer, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
While the principal of a New York elementary school (P.S. 48) took on chronic absenteeism from 2011 to 2013, a research team at the Center for New York City Affairs followed her efforts. The school drove down chronic absenteeism almost 10 percentage points. School staff routinely touched base with students, outside "success mentors"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attendance, Truancy, Prevention
Spiegel, Ellen J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
The BRIDGE Alternative Middle School in Lowell, Massachusetts, serves students ages 12-16 who have exhibited behavioral problems in traditional school settings, including problems such as truancy, multiple suspensions, mental health issues, peer conflicts, family dysfunction, academic problems, and gang involvement. Students referred to BRIDGE are…
Descriptors: Stress Management, At Risk Students, Adolescents, Middle School Students
Teachman, Gerard W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
After reviewing the extent of in-school truancy in the Detroit high schools, the author offers three recommendations centering on the adoption and enforcement of attendance policies that lead the student to acceptance of personal responsibility for his/her attendance. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Attendance, Discipline Policy, Secondary Education, Truancy
Unger, Karen V.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes a program in which, once a student is identified as a chronic truant, the skill deficiencies that cause his problems are diagnosed and corrective lessons are begun. (IRT)
Descriptors: Guidance Programs, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions, Secondary Education
Pappas, Phillip – Phi Delta Kappan, 1970
A brief description is presented of a school for delinquent boys that attempts to change the student's attitude toward his former educational experiences. The boys, ages 10 to 16, are from the Pittsburgh area. (MF)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Decision Making, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Individual Power
Chapman, Warren – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
In 1987, the Illinois State Board of Education committed itself to adopt and expand policies, procedures, and programs addressing the problems of at-risk children and youth. To address issues involving early intervention, early childhood education, minority achievement, urban education, truancy prevention, and alternative education, the board…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
