Articles
- No agreement between teachers, district, WIVB, April 24, 2012
- Teachers defiant on eve of NYS deadline, WIVB, April 23, 2012
- San Diego Schools’ Attendance Up Again, U~T San Diego, April 3, 2012
- Districts aiming to boost attendance, The Hattiesburg American, March 31, 2012
- Teacher Ratings Face New Union Obstructions, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2012
- Aid clock is ticking in bid for solution to school impasse, Buffalo News, March 15, 2012
- A New Approach to Transitions: Welcoming Families and Their Ideas into Kindergarten Classrooms, Harvard Family Research Project, March 15, 2012
- Eliminate chronic absenteeism by working together, Buffalo News, March 12, 2012
- What the Student Attendance Clause means for Buffalo Schools, Buffalo Rising, March 9, 2012
- Taking Attendance: Volunteers, data part of helping bridge gap for chronically absent students, Providence Journal, March 8, 2012
- School Board to union: bend on attendance, AP, March 7, 2012
- School Board backs all-student count, Buffalo News, March 7, 2012
- OK awaited on evaluations tied to student attendance, Buffalo News, March 1, 2012
- Valdez debates four-day school week, Anchorage Daily News, Feb. 23, 2012
- Effort to improve third graders’ reading skills targets chronic absences, Patterson Press, Feb. 16, 2012
- School districts launch effort to fight absenteeism, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 12, 2012
- Los Angeles moves haltingly toward ending fines for truancy, Center for Public Integrity, Feb. 10,2012
- Michelle Cortes-Harkins: Providence Children’s Initiative Improving Attendance, GoLocal Prov, Feb. 10, 2012
- Data analysis shows attendance counts in Augusta, Columbia counties and Georgia, Augusta Chronicle and Columbia County News Times, Feb. 5, 2012
- Parents say Loudoun officials are reaching too far to stop school tardies, The Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2012
- Oregon students show startling rate of absenteeism, The Oregonian, Feb, 3, 2012
- Chronic Absence: The elephant in the emptying classroom, Take Part, Feb 2, 2012
- Providence Schools in Crisis: 37% of Students Chronically Absent, GoLocal Prov, Feb. 2, 2012
- One in 4 public school students chronically absent, Salem Statesman Journal, Feb, 2, 2012
- New Study: Chronic School Absences Lead to Long-Term Academic Problems, Oregon Public Broadcast, Feb. 2, 2012
- Tackling Chronic Absence in the Early Grades, National Civic Review, Winter 2011
- WA middle school wins attendance contest, Associated Press, Jan. 28, 2012
- Student absences costing schools big bucks, Bakersfield Now, Jan. 18, 2012
- Absenteeism Rife at Boston High Schools, Boston Globe, Jan. 15, 2012
- School Absenteeism, Mental Health Problems Linked, Psych Central, Dec. 25, 2011
- Board to Focus on Attendance, The Del Norte Triplicate, Dec. 6, 2011
- Addressing the Problem of Chronic Absenteeism, Buffalo News, Dec. 1, 2011
- Wichita Schools Redefine, Fight Chronic Absenteeism, Wichita Eagle, Nov. 25, 2011
- For Homeless Child, A Long Ride to 4th Grade, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2011
- NYC Mentoring Program Cuts Back on Missed School Days, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 11, 2011
- A Student Says City’s Anti-Truancy Push Changed Her Life, Gotham Schools, Nov. 10, 2011
- Don’t Skip: Schools Waking Up on Absenteeism, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 2011
- City Schools Launch Attendance Campaign, Baltimore Sun, Sept. 19, 2011
- Modesto Area Schools Fight to Keep Truancy from Darkening Children’s Futures, Modesto Bee, Sept. 18, 2011
- Kids Miss More School When Parents Smoke: Study, Reuters, Sept. 6, 2011
- Thousands of Students in Early Grades Miss Weeks of School, Catalyst Chicago, Aug. 31, 2011
- Oakland to Parents: Don’t Forget School is Starting, The Bay Citizen, Aug. 25, 2011
- As San Francisco Schools Crack Down, Absenteeism Drops, The Bay Citizen, Aug. 11, 2011
- State senator and schools chancellor team up to fight asthma rates among students, New York Daily News, July 19, 2011
- Their aim: Fewer absent kids, Albany Times Union, July 8, 2011
- Contagion of absence infects system, Buffalo News, June 29, 2011
- Absent kids cost schools millions in funding, The North County Times, June 26, 2011
- School reform, Chicago style,Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2011
- City Reduces Chronic Absenteeism in Public Schools, The New York Times, June 17, 2011
- “It’s Cool to Be in School”: Study Shows Absences Can Have Detrimental Effects on Students, The Deseret News, June 6, 2011
- Rumore, Williams differ on absenteeism, Buffalo News, May 25, 2011
- Absence Rates at Oakland Unified School Alarming, San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2011
- Oakland Schools Among the First in California to Track Absenteeism, San Jose Mercury News, May 20, 2011
- Turnaround Starts with Attendance, The Boston Globe, May 13, 2011
- City Year’s Mentors Show Up for Truants at Bronx Public Schools, New York Daily News, April 26, 2011
- When Children Don’t Go to School, Parents Go to Jail, The Baltimore Sun, April 25, 2011
- Washington Legislature Rejects New Truancy Plan, Seattle Times, April 15, 2011
- Missing Students: A Bigger, Younger Problem Than We Think, BAM Radio, April 1, 2011
- As Student Absenteeism Rises, a Charter School Fights Back, The New York Times, March 25, 2011
- Chronic Absence Cases Tough to Eliminate, The Sandpiper, March 21, 2011
- City Takes Aim at Truancy, U.S. News and World Report, March 4, 2011
- Kent County Community Schools Removing Barrier to Learning The Grand Rapids Press, Jan. 24, 2011
- Lebanon School District Sued Over Excessive Truancy Fines, The Huffington Post, Jan. 20, 2011
- 1st Lesson for High School Students: Show Up, The Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 24, 2011
- Md. lawmaker request interventions for absentee elementary students, The Washington Examiner, Dec. 30, 2010
- Tracking Truants, Education Next, Winter 2011
- NY Study says Punishment Doesn’t Solve Absenteeism, CBS News, Nov. 27, 2010
- Punishing Parents Doesn’t Solve NYC Absenteeism: Study, NBC News, Nov. 27, 2010
- Prince George’s school officials, advocates tackle chronic absenteeism, The Washington Post, Oct.18 , 2010
- Early grades become the new front in absenteeism wars, Education Week, Oct. 15, 2010
- Spurred by Statistics, Districts Combat Chronic Absenteeism, Education Week, Oct. 1, 2010
- City rolls out transportation program for students to ‘Rate Your Ride‘, Baltimore Sun, Sept. 30, 2010
- Absences Rampant in City School, The Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 19, 2010
- Too Many Empty Seats, The Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard, Sept. 3, 2010
- Alonso’s Tour of Schools Focuses on Attendance, The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 1, 2010
- School Absenteeism has Social, Financial Costs, The San Diego Union Tribune, Aug. 28, 2010
- Pilot Program to Fight Truancy in NYC Schools, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 19, 2010
- Alonso to Work on Poor Student Attendance, The Baltimore Sun, July 21, 2010
- Taking Attendance in Bloomberg Bid to Cut Truancy, City Limits magazine, June 29, 2010
- Missing Out on Reading, The American Prospect, June 13, 2010
- SFUSD Tries to Curb Truancy at Elementary Level, San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 2010
- Curbing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades May/June 2010 Principal Magazine
- Q&A: Attendance advocate says littlest learners missing so much school they are being left behind, June 7, 2010, The Hechinger Report
- Being There is Half the Battle, Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades, Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families magazine. May 2010
- R.I. Kids Count says absenteeism is a key problem, Providence Journal, April 12, 2010
- Why Improving School Attendance is Critical to Building Community Health: New Research Reveals Long-term Impact of Chronic School Absence Center Scene, Winter/Spring 2010
- Chronic Early Absence: Providing Solutions for Increasing Achievement in the Early Grades and Preventing School Drop Out, Education Commission of the States, The Progress of Education Reform, February 2010, Vol. 11. No. 1.
- Chronic Absenteeism in U.S. Schools, Education Week, Oct. 28, 2008
- Report Cites Chronic Absence in City Schools,The New York Times, October 21, 2008
- Absences in the Early Grades Tied to Learning Lags Education Week, October 1, 2008
Broadcast Interviews and Podcasts
- Scaling Up Solutions To The Dropout Problem, WAMU, March 13, 2012
- Debate Over Teacher Evaluations Continue, Parents Discuss Ways to Improve Attendance, WGRZ, March 12, 2012
- Scaling Up Solutions To The Dropout Problem: Program applies successful Johns Hopkins model to D.C. schools and beyond, WAMU, March 8, 2012
- LA City Council votes to amend truancy law, NPR, Feb. 22, 2012
- Schools look to holistic approach to improve attendance, PBS NewsHour, Feb. 10, 2012
- Detroit Schools No. 1 Mission: Get Kids to Class, NPR, Feb, 8, 2012
- Why Kids Drop Out: Identifying the Early Warning Signs, WAMU, Feb. 7, 2012
- Chronic Absences in Oregon School, OPB, Feb. 2, 2012
- Chronic Absence Among Early Learning, Bloomberg, Nov. 28, 2011
- Tackling Absent Students in Buffalo, WGRZ-TV Buffalo, Nov. 17, 2011
- Can Tyra Banks Get Kids to School? Seattle Says Yes, NPR, Nov. 10, 2011
- Buffalo School Officials Working to Improve School Attendance, WGRZ-TV Buffalo, Nov. 8, 2011
- Pulling Out Stops to Spke Attendance, WGRZ-TV Buffalo, August 2011
- Cutting Absenteeism, KQED Radio Forum, May 18, 2011
- Missing Students, A Bigger, Younger Problem Than We Think, BAM Radio, March 2011
- Podcast: Coping with Chronic Absence Early Ed Watch, Feb 8, 2011
Blog Posts
- Raising Attendance at Tulsa’s Head Start Program, New America Foundation, March 13, 2012
- Cuomo, King mute on critical issue for teacher evals, BuffaloNews.com, March 1, 2012
- A Step Toward Commonsense School Discipline, The California Endowment, Feb. 23, 2012
- Will Raising the School Attendance Age Lower the Dropout Rate, The Atlantic, Feb. 21, 2012
- Curbing Chronic Student Absenteeism, 360 Education Solutions, Feb. 14, 2012
- The Early Habit of Being Late, The Educated Reporter, Feb. 9, 2012
- Chronic Absenteeism Reveals and Causes Problems, Education News, Feb. 1, 2012
- Truant Students Are Heeding Their Wake-up Call, New York Times SchoolBook blog, Nov. 10,2012
- School Attendance Really Does Matter, School Matters, Augusta Chronicle, Sept. 7, 2011
- Students and Parents Tell LA Truancy Task Force to End the Tickets and Fines, The California Endowment, Aug. 31, 2011
- Chronic Absenteeism in Oakland, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times, May 19, 2011
- After-school Programs Work to Improve School Day Attendance, Education Week, April 27, 2011
- Are the young children in school today?, Rasco from RIF, March 24, 2011
- Schools use celebrity wake-up calls to battle truancy, New York Times City Room, Feb. 10, 2011
- City takes to the phones in battle of chronic absenteeism, Gotham Schools, Feb 10, 2011
- Virginia Bill That Would Revoke Parents’ License for Children’s Truancy,Huffington Post, Jan. 21, 2011
- When Engaging Kids in School Becomes Everybody’s Business, Dec. 9, 2010, Vera Institute of Justice
- To Attend or Not to Attend, Nov. 22 , 2010 High-Schools.com
- Chronic Absenteeism, Nov. 19, 2010, Get Ahead
- Will offering students a shopping spree encourage perfect attendance? Nov. 8, 2010, Babble
- Ed Trust-West Applauds Signing of Legislation, Oct 1, 2010
- Bill would create green career academics, CALPADS bill also awaits Schwarzenegger’s signature, Educated Guess, Sept. 22, 2010
- Student Absence Myth Busters, The Principal Difference, Sept. 20, 2010
- Peralta rallies religious community to abate truancy, Oakland North, Sept. 16, 2010
- Attendance and AYP, The Notebook (Philadlephia Public Schools)
- Absence Makes the Student No Stronger, Poverty in America, July 29, 2010
- Solving the Attendance Issue at Priority Schools, NEA Priority Schools Campaign, July 13, 2010
- Taking Attendance Seriously: Chronic Absence and Low-Income Children, Spotlight on Poverty, July 9, 2010
- If You’re Not in Class, New York Nonprofit Press, June 30, 2010
- On Time Attendance: Even in the Early Years, It Matters Early Ed Watch blog, New America Foundation, April 21, 2010
Commentary
- Teachers need to get realistic on attendance, Buffalo News, March 15, 2012
- Pity the students: The decision by teachers to kick away millions in federal funding is an outrage, Buffalo News, March 8, 2012
- All of the Students Matter, Buffalo News, March 3, 2012
- Effort to Boost Seattle Public Schools Students’ Attendance is Paying Off, Seattle Times, Feb. 26, 2012
- Absence: That explains a lot, Albany Democrat Herald, Feb. 12, 2012
- Showing up: learning’s first step, The Oregonian, Feb. 7, 2012
- When it comes to tardiness, shouldn’t the punishment fit the crime, The Washington Post, Feb. 7, 2012
- Let’s Focus on Chronic Absenteeism, Education Week, January 4, 2012
- My View: Be Here Get There, Seattle’s New Attendance Campaign, Oct. 3, 2011
- Rethinking Suspensions to Keep Kids Learning, Education Week, August 2, 2011
- A Truancy Crisis, Buffalo News, May 31, 2011
- Homelessness is Key Factor in Truancy, The Baltimore Sun, May 5, 2011
- Truancy and the Courts, The Baltimore Sun, May 1, 2011
- How about using a proven way to crack down on truancy?, Charleston Gazette-Mail, Jan. 28, 2011
- School Reform Math in Baltimore: Fewer Suspensions Equals Better Results, The Washington Post, Jan. 2, 2011
- New York needs a new approach to keeping teens in school, Syracuse Post Standard, Nov. 5, 2010
- California’s public school students need SB 1357, San Francisco Examiner, Sep. 23, 2010
- Five Myths About School Attendance, Education Week, Sept. 15, 2010
- Column: Consistent attendance plays a key role in student success, Kalamazoo Gazette, Sept. 7, 2010
- The Importance of Showing Up, The Baltimore Sun July 29, 2010
- Why Tracking Chronic Absenteeism is Key for California, The Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 2009