Reducing Student Absenteeism
Category: Student Learning
School attendance rates in the United States are lower now than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise in absenteeism has often been characterized as a crisis; but whether it amounts to a broader breakdown in norms depends on the historical baseline against which it is judged. The recent decline in attendance rates represents a small setback within a much longer trajectory of increasing school participation. This perspective helps distinguish a modest national shift in attendance from the deeper and more concentrated barriers to improving attendance that long predate the pandemic.
Keywords
student attendance, chronic absenteeism, COVID-19 pandemic, education policy
Education level
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/qrp6-m331
