It's 10 a.m.: Do you know where your children are? The persisting issue of school truancy

Intervention in School and Clinic

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-33

  McCray, Erica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 33748547748     PISSN: 10534512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10534512060420010501     Document Type: Review

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