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Chang, Hedy N. – Attendance Works, 2022
This brief examines how state policies and practices continue to evolve in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on data provided by 45 states plus the District of Columbia as of early May 2022. The brief updates our 2021 report, "Are Students Present and Accounted For? An Examination of State Attendance Policies During the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Attendance, State Policy, COVID-19, Pandemics
Chang, Hedy N.; Bauer, Lauren; Byrnes, Vaughan – Attendance Works, 2018
Over the past decade, chronic absence has gone from being a virtually unknown concept to a national education metric that provides every school in the nation with critical data on how many students are missing so many days of school it jeopardizes their academic success. The inclusion of chronic absence in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was…
Descriptors: Attendance, Data, Attendance Patterns, Information Utilization
Ginsburg, Alan; Jordan, Phyllis; Chang, Hedy – Attendance Works, 2014
This state-by-state analysis of national testing data demonstrates that students who miss more school than their peers consistently score lower on standardized tests, a result that holds true at every age, in every demographic group, and in every state and city tested. The analysis is based on the results of the 2013 National Assessment of…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, National Competency Tests