Research by Attendance Works
For the full list of research and reports, please visit the All Research page.
Reducing Early Grade Chronic Absence: Insights From GLR Communities
What’s Working. Reducing Early Grade Chronic Absence: Insights From GLR Communities, by Attendance Works with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Attendance Works analyzed 33 stories generated by 28 different CGLR communities for a What’s Working Community Challenge (WWCC) brief. Each campaign identified addressing school attendance as a priority issue.
Using Chronic Absence Data to Improve Conditions for Learning
Using Chronic Absence Data to Improve Conditions for Learning, by Hedy N. Chang, David Osher, Mara Schanfield, Jane Sundius and Lauren Bauer, describes how chronic absence and conditions for learning are interconnected issues that can have an impact on a child’s educational success. Case studies from the state of Georgia and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District help to illustrate how…
Data Matters: Using Chronic Absence to Accelerate Action for Student Success
Data Matters Using Chronic Absence to Accelerate Action for Student Success, by Hedy N. Chang, Lauren Bauer and Vaughan Byrnes, September 2018. This report provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and discusses the implications for state and local action. Based on data released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office…
Seize the Data Opportunity in California: Using Chronic Absence to Improve Educational Outcomes
Attendance Works, the Center for Regional Change, University of California Davis, and Children Now, May 2018. This report a call to action urging anyone interested in improving educational outcomes to use chronic absence data recently released by the California Department of Education to identify which schools and groups of students most need support, so they have an equal opportunity to…
Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence
This report, Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence, by Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center, September 2017, provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and discusses the implications for state and local action.
Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence
Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center, September 2016. This brief builds on the first national chronic absence data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection from the 2013-14 school year. The analysis finds that half of the 6.5 million students who are chronically absent nationwide are concentrated in just 4 percent of school districts. The analysis also…
Mapping the Early Attendance Gap: Charting a Course for Student Success
This report shows how disparities in school attendance rates starting as early as preschool and kindergarten are contributing to achievement gaps and high school dropout rates across the country. The report also highlights the connection between health and attendance and the power of states to tackle absenteeism by tapping key champions, leveraging data, and learning from places that have improved…