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All Hands on Deck: Today’s Chronic Absenteeism Requires A Comprehensive District Response and Strategy

All Hands on Deck: Today’s Chronic Absenteeism Requires A Comprehensive District Response and Strategy, by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University. A deeper look into national data for the 2021-22 school year highlights how chronic absence directly affects students from all backgrounds. The analysis offers recommendations for district and state action and lists four proven strategies…

Chronic Absence Remained A Significant Challenge in 2022-23

Chronic Absence Remained A Significant Challenge in 2022-23, by Attendance Works. Emerging data from a number of states for the 2022-23 school year reveals chronic absence remains very high and only decreased slightly from the prior school year. When aggregated across 11 states, data show a small (2.23%) decrease in chronic absence rates when compared to the prior school year.

Rising Tide of Chronic Absence Challenges Schools

Rising Tide of Chronic Absence Challenges Schools, by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University. This analysis of national data for the 2021-22 school year, released by the U.S. Department of Education, shows striking findings at the school level: two-thirds (66%) of enrolled students attended a school with high or extreme levels of chronic absence. Nationally, 14.7 million…
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Monitoring Data Matters Even More: A Review of State Attendance Data Policy and Practice in School Year 2022-23

Monitoring Data Matters Even More: A Review of State Attendance Data Policy and Practice in School Year 2022-23, by Attendance Works. States can play an essential guiding role in the collection, use and public availability of attendance and chronic absence data. While reporting chronic absence on state report cards is required by the federal government, how that data is reported…
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Monitoring Who Is Missing Too Much School: A Review of State Policy and Practice in School Year 2021-22

Monitoring Who Is Missing Too Much School: A Review of State Policy and Practice in School Year 2021-22, by Attendance Works. This brief examines how state policies and practices continue to evolve in light of the pandemic. It’s based upon data provided by 45 states plus the District of Columbia as of early May 2022. The brief shows positive developments…
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Chronic Absence Patterns and Prediction During Covid-19: Insights from Connecticut

Chronic Absence Patterns and Prediction During Covid-19: Insights from Connecticut, by Attendance Works and the Connecticut State Department of Education, analyzes how patterns of chronic absence in the state differ across learning modes, grades and student groups. It offers insights from the analysis that can be used for Covid-19 educational recovery efforts and attendance initiatives, and recommendations that other states…
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Using Chronic Absence to Map Interrupted Schooling, Instructional Loss and Educational Inequity

Using Chronic Absence to Map Interrupted Schooling, Instructional Loss, and Educational Inequity: Insights from School Year 2017-18 Data, by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center, February 2021. This report provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and shows how chronic absence data reported prior to the coronavirus pandemic can help…
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