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VanSciver, James – Executive Educator, 1986
Describes a low-cost experiment to reinforce good student attendance and abandon the punitive approach of lowering grades and suspending chronic absentees. The Pocomoke High School program (Maryland) rewards students for superior attendance with certificates, press releases, congratulatory letters, positive phone calls to parents, and homeroom…
Descriptors: Attendance, Average Daily Attendance, Reinforcement, Rewards
Armstead, Major, Jr. – Executive Educator, 1980
Outlines the program that one high school used to increase its yearly average daily attendance by one percentage point. The program involves giving recognition to individual students and to groups of students. (IRT)
Descriptors: Attendance, Average Daily Attendance, Guidelines, High Schools
