This is a Q&A with Saleem Qazi, CEO and founder of RaaWee K12 Solutions, a company specializing in web-based solutions for chronic absence and truancy prevention in public schools. Attendance Works: Saleem, could you share how you first became aware of the issue of chronic absence? Saleem: Absolutely. I met Hedy at a conference in […] The post RaaWee K12: Using Technology to Improve Student Attendance appeared first on Attendance Works.| Attendance Works
This is a guest blog post by Lauren P. Bailes, University of Delaware; Henry May, University of Delaware; and Danielle Riser, American Institutes for Research High rates of schoolwide chronic absence among elementary students have academic consequences for all students in the school, not just those who are chronically absent, according to new research. In …| Attendance Works
By Hedy Chang, Executive Director, Attendance Works; Robert Balfanz, Director, Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University; and Vaughan Byrnes, Senior Research Associate, Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University. The recent release of national data for the 2022-23 school year by the U.S. Department of Education confirms that while modest improvements in reducing chronic absence are …| Attendance Works
Since we published this post, more states have released 2022-23 school year chronic absence data. Learn more from FutureEd’s Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism and AEI’s Return2Learn Tracker. A number of states have released chronic absence data for the 2022-23 school year. This emerging data reveals chronic absence remains very high and only decreased …| Attendance Works