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Truancy Prevention and Intervention

A Practical Guide

By: Lynn Bye,Michelle E. Alvarez,Janet Haynes,Cindy E. Sweigart

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Truancy Prevention and Intervention

A Practical Guide

By: Lynn Bye,Michelle E. Alvarez,Janet Haynes,Cindy E. Sweigart

Research has shown that truancy is frequently associated with juvenile crime and dropping out of school altogether. With the high dropout rate in the U.S. and the No Child Left Behind Act holding schools accountable for their dropout rates, it is essential for school social workers to contribute to their schools' improvement plan in meeting annual yearly progress benchmarks. This book, by well respected researchers and practitioners who have extensive experience with truancy, covers best practices in truancy at the community, school, and student/family levels of interventions. It provides an essential everyday reference guide to research-based programs and truancy program implementation. Beginning with an introduction to the essentials of truancy, its causes and consequences, and state and federal legislation, the authors then give readers a snapshot of what research has shown to work so far and what adaptations might look like in various school settings. Richly detailed case examples illustrate multiple levels of intervention, from the school-wide prevention and general policy levels to remedial interventions, including culturally competent approaches. Eminently practical and easily accessible, with sample forms, methods of measuring outcomes, ideas for funding, take-away points, and digestible research summaries, this will be a trusted toolkit for school professionals seeking to reduce their schools' dropout rates and improve students' engagement with school. School-based practitioners and student trainees alike will find a wealth of reliable information about what is seemingly an intractable problem. They can immediately begin implementing the proven and promising practices presented in this practical guide.

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Oxford University Press

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019045332X

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9780190453329

Women Legislators in Central America

Politics, Democracy, and Policy

By: Michelle A. Saint-Germain,Cynthia Chavez Metoyer

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Women Legislators in Central America

Politics, Democracy, and Policy

By: Michelle A. Saint-Germain,Cynthia Chavez Metoyer

During the years between 1980 and 1999, in the midst of war and economic crisis, a record number of women were elected to national legislatures in Central American republics. Can quantitative increases in the presence of elected women in Central America produce qualitative political changes? In this detailed study, Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chavez Metoyer explore the reasons for this unprecedented political rise of women, and what effect it has had on the region. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the authors analyze national and regional indicators to evaluate various hypotheses concerning the reasons for women's electoral success in the region, as well as to make comparisons with findings from other world regions. They find that the election of more women depends on three things: the presence of a crisis, a pool of politically experienced women, and a culture of gender consciousness. They also compare the characteristics of Central American women legislators to women in other national legislatures around the world. The authors document how elected women have used their policy-making power to begin to change the lives of all Central Americans, women and men alike. In more than seventy-five in-depth, personal interviews, these women legislators reflect on their lives, political careers, and gender identities in their own words, providing deep insights into recent events in this region.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774745

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9780292774742

Functional Behavioral Assessment

A Three-tiered Prevention Model

By: Kevin J. Filter,Michelle E. Alvarez,Michelle Alvarez

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Functional Behavioral Assessment

A Three-tiered Prevention Model

By: Kevin J. Filter,Michelle E. Alvarez,Michelle Alvarez

In schools, functional behavioural assessment (FBA) is traditionally applied to special education contexts. This book describes how FBA can improve the behaviour of all students using a three-tiered prevention model.

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Sswaa Workshop

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019976493X

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9780199764938

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas

Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide

By: Michelle A. Gonzalez

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A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas

Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide

By: Michelle A. Gonzalez

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways in which religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberation theology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out of touch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth, where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individual relationships with the divine. By drawing on a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, this volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent. Informed by the dialogue partners explored throughout the text, this volume presents a hemispheric approach to discussing lived religious movements. While not dismissive of liberation theologies, this approach is critical of their past and offers challenges to their future as well as suggestions for preventing their untimely demise. It is clear that the liberation theologies of tomorrow cannot look like the liberation theologies of today.

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NYU Press

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1479821217

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Sustaining Human Rights

Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations

By: Michelle D. Bonner

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Sustaining Human Rights

Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations

By: Michelle D. Bonner

The &“disappearance&” and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970s have been well documented and widely condemned as abuses of human rights. Less well known is what has become of the movements for human rights once democratic governments were restored in these countries. In this book, Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking Argentina as her primary example (with comparison to Chile in the final chapter). Bonner shows that the role of women&—viewed as protectors of the family&—is key to understanding how human rights movements have evolved. Moreover, the continuity of the &“historical frames&” used to legitimate their activity is an essential element in the success of their efforts, even while the claimed abuse has changed from the political repression undertaken by the dictators&’ minions to the economic hardships created by market inequities resulting from neoliberal policies. Based on extensive field research and providing a long historical view extending from colonial times to the present, this study compares the activities of the ten most prominent human rights organizations in Argentina and assesses the responses of both state and society.

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Penn State Press

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0271045493

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9780271045498

Functional Behavioral Assessment

A Three-tiered Prevention Model

By: Kevin J. Filter,Michelle E. Alvarez,Michelle Alvarez

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A Three-tiered Prevention Model

By: Kevin J. Filter,Michelle E. Alvarez,Michelle Alvarez

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Truancy Prevention and Intervention

Truancy Prevention and Intervention

Women Legislators in Central America

Women Legislators in Central America

Functional Behavioral Assessment

Functional Behavioral Assessment

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas

Sustaining Human Rights

Sustaining Human Rights

Functional Behavioral Assessment

Functional Behavioral Assessment

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