In this webinar, researchers describe the effects of immigration enforcement actions on student attendance and the strategies schools are using to improve attendance and build trust with families.
Summaries of each paper, from our Policy & Practice Series, are available here:
- Immigration Enforcement Actions and Empty Desks: Persistent and Acute Attendance Effects (Camp et al., 2026)
- What are schools doing to improve attendance? Evidence from Michigan and Georgia (Singer et al., 2026)
Authors of Immigration Enforcement Actions and Empty Desks: Persistent and Acute Attendance Effects
Andrew M. Camp
Senior Research Associate
Annenberg Institute at Brown University
Jonathon Acosta
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Annenberg Institute at Brown University
Janelle Haire
Independent Researcher
Edom Tesfa
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Annenberg Institute at Brown University
Authors of What are schools doing to improve attendance? Evidence from Michigan and Georgia
Jeremy Singer
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan-Flint
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff
Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor
Wayne State University
Jerome Graham
Assistant Professor of K-12 Educational Administration
Michigan State University
Richard O. Welsh
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University
Moderating by
Thomas Dee
Barnett Family Professor
Stanford University