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Ways to Handle Student Absences in Remote Teaching & When We’re Back in School is a series at my Ed Week column.

Earlier today, I wrote about new research on school attendance. I’ve decided to to use some of the information in that post and add more resources for a “Best” list on the topic.

Here are The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism:

Statistic Of The Day: Many Students Are Chronically Absent is the post I wrote earlier today.

The Government Says Chronic School Absenteeism Is a Crisis. What Can We Do About It? is from Slate.

What One District’s Data Mining Did For Chronic Absence is from NPR.

A look at chronic absenteeism across America is from The Associated Press.

Not All School Attendance Data Are Created Equal is from Ed Week.

The Relentless Nature of Improving Daily Attendance is also from Ed Week.

Chronic Absenteeism Is a Huge Problem. The Obama Administration Thinks It Can Fix It. is from Slate.

New Report Reveals How to Keep School Attendance, Enthusiasm High in June is from Ed Week.

Chronic Absences Hinder Young Learners is from The Atlantic.

California’s schools will soon be on the hook for things like suspensions, attendance and graduation rates is from The L.A. Times.

Study Finds That Rewards For School Attendance Make Things Worse

Here’s How We Keep Kids in School and Stop Chronic Absenteeism is from Education Post.

Researchers Find – Once Again – That Extrinsic Motivation Doesn’t Work

A New School Year Brings Renewed Focus On Attendance is from NPR.

Which School Districts Struggle Most With Chronically Absent Students? is from Ed Week.

The Long-Term Consequences of Missing School is from The Atlantic.

Large Sacramento County school districts face absenteeism challenges is from The Sacramento Bee.

California students with highest chronic absentee rates concentrated in 14 districts is from Ed Source.

American schools have a chronic absentee problem is from The Washington Post.

5 Reasons Schools Should Measure Chronic Absence is from NPR.

 

Breaking Down the Myths That Lead Young Students to Miss School is from Ed Week.

NEW STUDY FINDS THAT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AWARDS EITHER DON’T HELP OR ACTUALLY DECREASE STUDENTS COMING TO SCHOOL

STATISTIC OF THE DAY: LOTS OF STUDENTS ARE CHRONICALLY ABSENT

How Can Schools Better Persuade Students To Show Up For Class? is from NPR.

INTERESTING STUDY SUGGESTS THAT KEEPING CLASSMATES TOGETHER MAY REDUCE ABSENTEEISM

INTRIGUING RESEARCH ON ABSENTEEISM

Inside Detroit’s efforts to address one of the biggest obstacles to better schools: sky-high absenteeism is from Chalkbeat.

The problem with rewarding perfect school attendance is from The Washington Post.

What Research Tells Us about Poor Attendance at School is from The American Educator.

ATTENDANCE PLAYBOOK: SMART SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM is from Future Ed.

Sending personalised letters or texts to parents can help improve attendance, but wider evidence on how to reduce absenteeism is weak. is from The Education Research Foundation.

DISTRICT STRATEGIES TO REDUCE STUDENT ABSENTEEISM is from Annenberg.

Chronic Absenteeism Spiked During COVID. Here’s What Schools Can Do About It is from Ed Week.

74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis is from The 74.

Attendance Is An Essential Ingredient for Educational Equity is from The Learning Policy Institute.

Why are students missing so much school? The answer may lie in the chronic absenteeism ‘black box’ is from Chalkbeat.

Addressing Chronic Absenteeism in Schools: A Meta-Analysis of Evidence-Based Interventions is a bit of a depressing study which basically found that no interventions worked.

How Home Visits Helped Connecticut Cut Student Absenteeism is from Future Ed.

With chronic absenteeism on the upswing, how can schools tackle attendance issues? is from Education Dive and talks about this report, Attendance Playbook: Smart Solutions for Reducing Student Absenteeism Post-Pandemic.

A surge in absentee students might require a radical rethink of schools is from The Washington Post.

Should Schools Reward Attendance? What the Experts Say is from Ed Week.

Strategies for Addressing Chronic Absenteeism in the Post Pandemic Era is from The Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium’s (MERC) Research group.

NEW STUDY HIGHLIGHTS WHAT ALL TEACHERS KNOW – SCHOOL ATTENDANCE HAS GOTTEN A LOT WORSE

Why Aren’t Students Showing Up for School? is from PACE.

Tracking student data falls short in combating absenteeism at school is from The Hechinger Report.