Absent from School: Understanding and Addressing Student Absenteeism

ISBN-13: 9781682532775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Michael A. Gottfried; Ethan L. Hutt; Elaine Allensworth

Spis treści

• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Elaine Allensworth and Robert Balfanz
• Introduction
• Michael A. Gottfried and Ethan L. Hutt
• PART I
• Measuring Absenteeism
• 1. Roll Call
• Describing Chronically Absent Students, the Schools They Attend, and Implications for Accountability
• Heather Hough
• 2.Variation in Chronic Absenteeism
• The Role of Children, Classrooms, and Schools
• Kevin A. Gee
• 3.Attending to Attendance
• Why Data Quality and Modeling Assumptions Matter When Using Attendance as an Outcome
• Shaun M. Dougherty and Joshua Childs
• 4.The Distributional Impacts of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
• Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, and Long Tran
• PART II
• Policies, Programs, and Practices
• 5. Reinforcing Student Attendance
• Shifting Mind-Sets and Implementing Data-Driven Improvement Strategies During School Transitions
• Stacy B. Ehrlich and David W. Johnson
• 6.Schools as Sanctuaries?
• Examining the Relationship Between Immigration Enforcement and Absenteeism Rates for Immigrant-Origin Children
• Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj and Jacob Kirksey
• 7.Can School Buses Drive Down (Chronic) Absenteeism?
• Sarah A. Cordes, Michele Leardo, Christopher Rick, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
• 8.The Ills of Absenteeism
• Can School-Based Health Centers Provide the Cure?
• Jennifer Graves, Sarit Weisburd, and Christopher Salem
• 9.Tackling Truancy
• Findings from a State-Level Policy Banning Suspensions for Truancy
• Kaitlin Anderson, Anna J. Egalite, and Jonathan N. Mills
• PART III
• Interventions
• 10.Ready . . . Set . . . Text!
• Reducing School Absenteeism Through Parent-School Two-Way Text Messaging
• Ken Smythe-Leistico and Lindsay C. Page
• 11.Keeping Families Front and Center
• Leveraging Our Best Ally for Ninth-Grade Attendance
• Martha Abele Mac Iver and Steven B. Sheldon
• 12. Intervention Design Choices and Evaluation Lessons from Multisite Field Trials on Reducing Absenteeism
• Rekha Balu
• 13. Conclusion
• Ethan L. Hutt and Michael A. Gottfried
• Afterword
• Todd Rogers and Johannes Demarzi
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Index