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Improving how schools engage families during the crucial 9th-grade year

Improving how schools engage families during the crucial 9th-grade year

By Martha Abele Mac Iver, Joyce Epstein, and Steven B. Sheldon

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Getting students to school: Using family and community involvement to reduce chronic absenteeism

Getting students to school: Using family and community involvement to reduce chronic absenteeism

Students who are chronically absent are more likely than other students to drop out of school. Many schools have goals to reduce student truancy and to help chronically absent students attend school regularly. Few studies, however, have focused on whether or how family and community involvement help reduce rates of chronic absenteeism. In this longitudinal […]

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Destination Graduation*

Destination Graduation*

In addition to improving student achievement, many elementary, middle, and high schools are working to increase students’ career awareness, ensure completion of requirements for grade promotion and high school graduation, and improve planning for postsecondary education and training. This set of 15 activities comes from schools in the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at […]

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Present and Accounted For: Partnership Effects on Student Attendance

Present and Accounted For: Partnership Effects on Student Attendance

Reducing student absenteeism and truancy is a goal of many schools across the country. Surprisingly little research focuses on what schools can do to increase and sustain students’ daily attendance, and even fewer studies explore how family–school–community partnerships may contribute to this goal. In this longitudinal study, data were collected on schools’ rates of daily […]

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