Students who don't develop the habits associated
with good attendance in the early years will find it difficult to develop them as adults.
According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar
students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.
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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, D, proposed $ 60,000 in funding to provide incentives to students and
families with good attendance including tablets and $ 150 gift cards.
Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for
teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).
The study finds that students with low attendance in both PreK and K often continue to have low attendance, are more likely to be retained by grade 3 and on average have lower academic outcomes than
peers with better attendance.
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Stocks in the Future is a financial literacy and incentive program for students in grades 6 through 8, delivered weekly by students» regular classroom teachers, allowing students to earn
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Allensworth, whose research will be featured Tuesday, April 7, in a national webinar sponsored by California's Attendance Institute, a nonprofit school advocacy group based in Sacramento, offers up the educational experience of two fifth graders that might finish the year both
with good attendance records, say 97 percent.
School 83 is also offering a slew of rewards for kids to come to school: There's a club for students
with good attendance, students can earn snacks or the chance to wear jeans and the class with the best attendance each month has a party.
A third of students who are chronically absent in 9th grade don't graduate on time, compared to 10 percent of
those with better attendance.