{"id":7638,"date":"2024-11-30T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2024-12-21T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:54:22","slug":"tackling_chronic_absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/tackling_chronic_absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Chronic Absenteeism One Layer at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7638\" class=\"elementor elementor-7638\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fe4f0c2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fe4f0c2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a2ae1d9\" data-id=\"a2ae1d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d5f0e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d5f0e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>BY MADDIE WELLS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willettassociates.com\/ubalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Absenteeism-973x1024.jpg\" alt=\"student with large stack of books on head\" width=\"700\" height=\"737\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Barbara A. Babb and Senior Fellow Gloria H. Danziger saw the need for a different approach to chronic absenteeism among Baltimore City Public School students. Forgoing traditional punitive methods to treat students\u2019 absences, they created what is now called the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Project (TCAP)\u2014formerly the Truancy Court Program, or TCP\u2014to understand and treat underlying issues, foster long term academic success and strengthen ties between schools and the community.<\/p>\n<p>As the TCAP team likes to say, addressing chronic absenteeism is like \u201cpeeling an onion.\u201d A student\u2019s low attendance rate is often just the first layer\u2014a sign that children and their families are struggling with problems like bullying, an undiagnosed learning impairment, food insecurity, illness or substance use in the family, the loss of a parent or caregiver, housing instability or neighborhood violence.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/tackling_chronic_absenteeism\/#more-7638\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Tackling Chronic Absenteeism One Layer at a Time\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MADDIE WELLS In 2005, University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Barbara A. Babb and Senior Fellow Gloria H. Danziger saw the need for a different approach to chronic absenteeism among Baltimore City Public School students. Forgoing traditional punitive methods to treat students\u2019 absences, they created what is now called the Tackling Chronic Absenteeism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}