Check & connect: Enhancing school completion through student engagement

Handbook of Youth Prevention Science

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 327-348

  Christenson, Sandra L ^a   Reschly, Amy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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