School attendance problems and absenteeism as early warning signals: Review and implications for health-based protocols and school-based practices

CA Kearney, R Dupont, M Fensken… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
School attendance has been historically linked to healthy states of functioning, whereas
school attendance problems/absenteeism have been historically linked to unhealthy states …

Absence unexcused: A systematic review on truancy

ES Weathers, KB Hollett, ZR Mandel… - Peabody Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Mirroring trends in the legal system, discipline within education has adopted zero-tolerance
policies in an attempt to curb undesired behaviors in school. K–12 schools have expanded …

Masking attendance: How education policy distracts from the wicked problem (s) of chronic absenteeism

J Childs, R Lofton - Educational Policy, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Traditionally, education policy focuses on reforms that address class size, teaching and
learning within classrooms, school choice, and changes in leadership as ways to improve …

Pushed out for missing school: The role of social disparities and school truancy in dropping out

R Mireles-Rios, VM Rios, A Reyes - Education Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Research: The goal of this study is to understand the experiences of Black and Latino former
high school students who dropped out, or were pushed out, of a large urban school district in …

Coordinating the mesosystem: An ecological approach to addressing chronic absenteeism

J Childs, CL Scanlon - Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
To reduce the number of chronically absent students in schools annually, cities and
municipalities across the United States have implemented programs, initiatives, and …

School absenteeism and neighborhood deprivation and threat: Utilizing the child opportunity index to assess for neighborhood-level disparities in Passaic County, NJ

I Opara, D Thorpe, DT Lardier Jr - Urban Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Leveraging publicly available data about schools” absenteeism from the New Jersey
Department of Education, the present study examined how neighborhood-level resource …

Education legislations that equalize: a study of compulsory schooling law reforms in post-WWII United States

J Liu - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Compulsory schooling laws are commonly believed to be effective measures in ensuring
individuals benefit from education. However, their implications for racial equality are less …

Caught between a rock and a hard place: The gap between rights-related policies and educational opportunities for unaccompanied im/migrant children in detention

AW Wiseman, L Damaschke-Deitrick… - Journal of Latinos …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This research examines the gap between federal and state legal standards and policies
related to educational provision for school-age youth detained in the United States, and …

Attending School: A Qualitative Study Exploring Principals' Strategies for Enhancing Attendance

J Smith - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This study Identified the approaches utilized by principals in the North Texas region to
improve student attendance, using a theoretical framework based on social cognitive theory …

Towards Improving Class Attendance in Higher Education: A Case Study of a University of Technology in South Africa

G Muresherwa, HKN Bama - International Journal of Learning, Teaching …, 2024 - ijlter.net
The relationship between absenteeism and academic performance in the higher education
environment is extensively documented. In the South African context, this was exacerbated …