A student is usually counted as chronically absent after missing about one day in ten, for any reason. Missed days add up to missed learning, and absence in the early grades and in middle and high school is closely watched as a warning sign.
edCircuit covers attendance for school leaders, attendance teams and families. It looks at what chronic absenteeism is and what drives it, strategies districts use to raise attendance, family engagement and home visits, what research learned by listening to students, state attendance laws that shift from punishment to support, and the tools schools use to track it.
Start with the articles below, then browse the full archive, newest first.
New to the topic? Start with edCircuit’s chronic absenteeism guide: what it is and how it differs from truancy, national rates, causes and effects, attendance policy, state truancy laws, ESSA and the attendance interventions research supports.