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Truancy Prevention and Intervention$
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Lynn Bye, Michelle E. Alvarez, Janet Haynes, and Cindy E. Sweigart

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780195398496

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398496.001.0001

Challenges Tracking and Reporting Truancy

Chapter:
(p. 3 ) Chapter 1 Challenges Tracking and Reporting Truancy
Source:
Truancy Prevention and Intervention
Author(s):

Lynn Bye

Michelle E. Alvarez

Janet Haynes

Cindy E. Sweigart

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398496.003.0001

This chapter discusses problems identifying and reporting truancy and gives recommendations for ways to solve these problems. Additionally, the role of support staff in facilitating quality attendance data collection and analysis is discussed. It is argued that high-quality systems to monitor student attendance are essential to help reduce truancy. It is important for school social workers to take on the task of helping their schools develop and to implement effective attendance-monitoring systems so that they can intervene early before students fall behind academically and develop chronic attendance problems.

Keywords:   truancy, prevention, student attendance, student monitoring, social work practice, school social workers

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