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- Title
"I Hope I Make It": Alternative School Students' Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability.
- Authors
Ewing, Eve L.; Davis, Bridgette; Guz, Samantha
- Abstract
Few empirical studies describe the interior world of alternative school settings. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 alternative school students, discussing factors that contribute to absenteeism as well as the circumstances that led them to enroll in an alternative setting. We find that students' regular attendance is facilitated by (1) stable housing, (2) a means of transportation to school, (3) feelings of belonging, and (4) flexible supports from staff. Given that two of these pertain to matters beyond the school, we argue for an "expanded accountability," in which the language of "accountability" is broadened to encompass non-educational policymaking.
- Subjects
ALTERNATIVE schools; SCHOOL attendance; TRANSPORTATION of school children; SEMI-structured interviews
- Publication
Urban Education, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 6, p1383
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00420859211027618