"Attendance Works has been an indispensable thought partner with Connecticut as we build state agency capacity, develop resources and implement statewide strategies to improve attendance."| Attendance Works
The Attendance Awareness Campaign concluded its 2025 webinar series with “Family Engagement Lays the Foundation for Attendance and Learning,” hosted by Attendance Works and the Institute for Educational Leadership. Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works, shared new research from Chicago and California with initial findings showing that positive school climate and strong family connections …| Attendance Works
Are you wondering about the best ways to visualize your district’s chronic absence data? If yes, use our newly updated free quantitative data tools, designed for school districts. These tools, known as the DATTs (District Attendance Tracking Tools) and SATTs (School Attendance Tracking Tools) are self-calculating Excel spreadsheets accompanied by handbooks with guidance. School districts …| Attendance Works
Responding to absences with positive problem-solving rather than blame or punishment this school year is more urgent than ever before. Despite the fact that punitive practices are widespread, a growing number of researchers have found that they are not particularly effective. Indeed, as discussed in our blog from April 2018, punitive practices have not been …| 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
The most recent federal data show that in the 2020-21 school year, at least 14.7 million students nationwide were chronically absent. This means that chronic absence has almost doubled from the more than 8 million students, pre-Covid-19, who were missing so many days of school that they were academically at risk. Chronic absence — missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason—excused, unexcused absences and suspensions—can translate into students having difficu...| Attendance Works
The latest national data available from the U.S. Department of Education shows at least 10.1 million students were chronically absent during the first full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This data, collected for the 2020-21 school year, is a substantial increase from the approximately 8 million students chronically absent in the prior years. Chronic absence …| Attendance Works
An unprecedented wave of chronic absence has spread across the country. New data from the U.S. Department of Education show striking findings at the school level: In 2021-22, two-thirds (66%) of enrolled students attended a school with high or extreme levels of chronic absence. This means at least one of five students in their school …| Attendance Works
Health-related absences are one of the top reasons students miss so many days of school they are at risk of being chronically absent. Occasional absences related to health reasons are to be expected. But absences can quickly add up when a child has an undertreated chronic health condition, lacks access to care or experiences anxiety or other mental health issues. Families might also be confused about when to send a child to school after months of being told to stay home.| 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
