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Oct 10, 2024 · Chronic absenteeism FAQs What does chronic absenteeism mean? Chronic absenteeism means a student has missed 10% or more of the yearly school days, whether the absence is excused or unexcused. How many days is considered excessive absenteeism? In a 180-day school year, it is considered chronic absenteeism after missing 18-20 or more days of school.
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Jan 1, 2024 · Fig. 1 illustrates, for each location, the chronic-absenteeism rates for the 2018 to 2019 and 2021 to 2022 school years. Notably, every state experienced increased chronic absenteeism with magnitudes varying from 4 to 23 percentage points. During the 2018 to 2019 school year, the enrollment-weighted chronic-absenteeism rate averaged 14.8 percent.
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Jul 1, 2017 · Chronic school absenteeism is a pervasive problem across the US; in early education, it is most rampant in kindergarten and its consequences are particularly detrimental, often leading to poorer academic, behavioral and developmental outcomes later in life.
- The Consequences of Chronic Absenteeism
- Patterns of Chronic Absenteeism by Student Demographics
- Reasons For Chronic Absenteeism
- What Do We Know About Reducing Chronic Absenteeism?
- Where to Go from Here?
Chronic absenteeism is associated with a host of adverse academic outcomes. A 2008 study of graduation patterns in Chicago Public Schools, for example, found that the number of days students were absent in eighth grade was eight times more predictive of freshman year course failure than eighth grade test scores.6 The same study found that freshman ...
While rates of chronic absenteeism are surprisingly high overall, there are some important differences across student demographics. According to statistics compiled by the USED (Figure 1), black students are significantly more likely to be chronically absent than their white peers, while Asian students are the least likely to be chronically absent....
Researchers categorize the underlying causes of truancy into four groups: (i) student-specific factors, (ii) family-specific factors, (iii) school-specific factors, and (iv) community-specific factors (Table 1). As one might expect, the importance of various factors depends a great deal on the student’s age and social context. Kindergarten absentee...
Schools, communities, and states have been working for years to reduce truancy through implementation of myriad interventions. Some are based in schools and operated by teachers or counselors; others are court-based, administered by judges, social workers or other court staff; yet others are community-based, and organized by local non-profits. Some...
The first step is for states and districts to collect high quality data. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to report data on chronic absenteeism, but there is still much work to be done at the school and district level to ensure the quality and consistency of such data.29 One way to accomplish this would be for states to adopt c...
Dec 23, 2015 · Abstract. Although educational policy makers uphold that chronic absenteeism (missing 10% or more of the school year) is damaging to students’ schooling outcomes, there is little empirical research to match. This study considers the role of spillover effects of chronic absenteeism on classmates’ achievement.
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A look at Chronic AbsenteeismAs COVID-19 upended the lives of students around the state, schools across Wisconsin saw a troubling. increase in chronic absences. Moreover, the highest rates of absenteeism occurred in schools with greater numbers of students of color and from low-income households, thus posing an additional threat to efforts to ...
