(Wash.) Education officials in Washington State released a new framework that will be used to identify schools in need of support — and one of the new indicators, attendance, will likely be an early stumbling block for schools in a region known
for high rates of chronic absenteeism.
Is it any wonder that, of the 100 largest school districts in the country, the one with
the highest rate of chronic absenteeism was in Detroit, where almost 58 percent of students qualified as «chronically absent»?
With
a high rate of chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools, it's important to consider the causes and fixes to reduce the negative impacts of this...
Map of New York City, showing neighborhoods with
the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in the elementary schools.
There are
high rates of chronic absenteeism.
The report also said that students in shelters or foster homes had
higher rates of chronic absenteeism.
It's no secret that kids who aren't sitting in class aren't learning, and Detroit has
the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in the country, according to a 2016 Associated Press report.
Research conducted by The Hamilton Project demonstrates that fourth and eighth grade proficiency in math was nearly double in schools with the lowest rates of chronic absenteeism compared to schools having
the highest rates of chronic absenteeism (Figure 2).
With such
a high rate of chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools, it's important to learn more about the causes and what parents and teachers can do to reduce the negative impacts of this trend.
According to The Oregonian's recent article about Oregon's chief education officer, Nancy Golden, her two goals for the coming school year are to reduce Oregon's sky -
high rates of chronic absenteeism and improve reading instruction from pre-school through grade three so that more third - graders can read well.