The Attendance Imperative: State Policy and Chronic Absence « Attendance Works

With as many as 7.5 million U.S. students missing nearly a month of school each year, state education leaders have begun mining attendance data to find out how many students and schools are at risk academically and how to turn around absenteeism, according to a report released today by Attendance Works.

For as long as teachers have taken the roll, schools have recorded attendance data. But most schools and districts treat monitoring absenteeism as a matter of compliance with compulsory education laws rather than a key data point that serves as a red flag that a student or school is headed off track academically.

via The Attendance Imperative: State Policy and Chronic Absence « Attendance Works.

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