Below is a list of research related to attendance for Early Education
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Exposure to Free School Meals in Kindergarten Has Lasting Positive Effects on Students’ Attendance
Trajkovski, Samantha and Amy Ellen Schwartz. Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Students receiving universal free meals in kindergarten are less likely to miss school than those receiving them later. This disparity shrinks but persists through grade three.
Attendance Counts: How Schools and Local Communities are Reducing Chronic Absence in North Carolina
North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation. September 2019. This report outlines results from a survey of 1,500 NC parents, preschool staff and elementary school staff who shared their impressions of current school-level attendance policies and practices. In addition to analyzing the survey data, the report considers what can be done by schools and in communities to reduce chronic absence in preschool…
What are the Effects of a Two-Generation Human Capital Program on Children’s Attendance and Chronic Absence in Head Start?
Sommer, Teresa Eckrich, et al. Northwestern University, May 2019. This study evaluates the effects on children’s attendance and chronic absence of Career Advance, a career pathway training program for parents of children enrolled in Head Start. It also examines whether the program is more effective in reducing children’s chronic absence among certain families (i.e., grouped by family, parent, and child…
Absenteeism in Head Start and Children’s Academic Learning
Arya Ansari, Kelly M. Purtell. Child Development. This study examined the implications of 3- and 4-year-old’s absences from Head Start for their early academic learning. Researchers found that children who missed more days of school, and especially those who were chronically absent, demonstrated fewer gains in areas of math and literacy during the preschool year.
The effects of Tulsa’s CAP Head Start program on middle-school academic outcomes and progress
Phillips, Deborah, William Gormley, and Sara Anderson, August 2016. This study presents evidence pertinent to current debates about the lasting impacts of early childhood educational interventions and, specifically, Head Start. A group of students who were first studied to examine the immediate impacts of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program were followed-up in middle school, primarily…
Chronic Absenteeism Among Kindergarten Students
Rhode Island Data HUB. This report followed a cohort of students through several years and found that those who were chronically absent in kindergarten were 20% less likely to score proficient or higher in reading, 25% less likely to score proficient or higher in math, twice as likely to be retained in grade, twice as likely to be suspended by…
Can Center-Based Childcare Reduce the Odds of Early Chronic Absenteeism
Gottfried, Michael A., Early Childhood Research Quarterly, April 2015. This study was the first to position itself in the intersection on research on center-based care and on chronic absenteeism. Given the growth in the utilization of center-based care and given the recent vocalized policy concerns of the detrimental effects of chronic absenteeism in early school years, this study inquired as…
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