Preventing Truancy and Dropout Among Urban Middle School Youth
Understanding Community-Based Action From the Student's Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9729468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louie F Rodríguez (0009-0005-0498-6350, Florida International University, Miami, corresponding author), Gilberto Q Conchas (University of California, Irvine) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-247 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124508325681 |
| OpenAlex | W2058076704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 19 |
This case study explores how a community-based truancy prevention program mediates against absenteeism, truancy, and dropping out and positively transforms the lives of Black and Latina/Latino middle school youth. Findings suggest that community—school partnerships are critical in the quest to combat truancy and the alarming dropout rate among urban youth. This study also shows how committed individuals can work to engage and empower low-income urban youth who are disengaged from school. Extensive interviews and observations with Latina/Latino and Black youth demonstrate how the intervention program mediates against social and academic failure. Using grounded theory, this article explores four student-identified dimensions that impact his/her (re)engagement with school: (a) the importance of space that promotes peer relations, (b) incentive structures within programs, (c) the need for social networks, and (d) youth advocacy as a mechanism for institutional accountability. Implications for combating truancy, reducing dropout, and promoting student engagement are discussed
Absenteeism · Accountability · Criminology · Dropout (neural networks · Incentive · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Sociology · Truancy · Early Childhood Education and Development · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
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Profiling Vulnerability in Youth and Predicting Educational Attainment in Young Adulthood
Universal Behavior Screening and Early Warning System Indicators in Middle Schools
Absence Unexcused
A scoping review of the research on school absences and return to school
School Absenteeism
Youths' Perspectives on the Reasons Underlying School Truancy and Opportunities to Improve School Attendance
Factors Associated With Truancy
Truancy as systemic discrimination
Mapping inequalities in school attendance
School Engagement Among Youth Entering Probation
It's Just the Wilson Way
Race-Neutral Doesn’t Work
Educational or Social Reform? Students Inform the Debate Over Improving Urban Schools
The Role of School and Community-Based Programs in Aiding Latina/o High School Persistence
Culturally Responsive Teaching through Spatial Justice in Urban Neighborhoods
Making the Case for Results-Based Accountability as an Intervention for Chronic Absenteeism in Schools to Improve Attendance
Subtractive Schooling
Lessons from Students on Creating a Chance to Dream
Dropping Out
Structuring Failure and Success
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
The Trouble with Black Boys
Bounding the Case within Its Context
Urban Schools
Dropping out of Middle School
Funds of knowledge for teaching
American Secondary Education
The Gender Politics of Educational Change
Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced-Gendered Epistemologies
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |