Truancy: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

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• Truancy: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
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• Truancy: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
  • Abstract
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• Table of Contents:
• Truancy
• Possible Causes of School Non-Attendance
  • The most logical response: an increase in crime rates and the nation’s incarcerated population. The most consistent finding regarding truancy and dropout rates is the correlation the behavior has to high rates of delinquency (Mueller and Giacomazzi, 2...
  • According to Spelman (2009), the United States houses a greater proportion of its citizens than any other country in the world and the direct costs of incarceration exceed $20,000 per prisoner per year, thus costing the U.S. public billions in tax dol...
  • Middleton (2009) suggests that if just South Carolina’s high school dropout population from 2007 graduated with their given classes, their contribution to the economy would be roughly $8 billion dollars over their lifetimes, thus supporting the view t...
  • Combating Truant Behavior
• Methodology
  • Setting and Participants
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Results and Discussion
• Next Steps
  • Conclusion