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Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2024
This is the executive summary for the report "Roll Call: A Landscape Review of the Students, Financing, and performance of Milwaukee's K-12 Schools." The report takes stock of the changes that have occurred in the city's overall "system" of schools, including student enrollment and demographics, financing, and outcomes. Key…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Funding Formulas, Elementary School Students
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The federal McKinney-Vento Act broadly defines homelessness in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
Thomas, Paul; Hennum, Øyvind – Power and Education, 2020
This study considers the issue of absenteeism in Norwegian high schools with a particular focus on the new controversial 10% ceiling, which began in August 2016. Data was obtained through documentary sources and participant observation in one high school with one of the highest absenteeism rates in the capital, Oslo. Employing Foucault's 'panoptic…
Descriptors: Attendance, School Attendance Legislation, Attendance Patterns, Foreign Countries
UNICEF, 2020
Through strong working relationships and a responsive approach for systems strengthening, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Turkey has been able to effectively integrate its humanitarian and refugee-related programmes into its wider strategic approach to increase the potential for every child to learn. In doing so, UNICEF has worked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Participation
Gottfried, Michael A., Ed.; Hutt, Ethan L., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
In "Absent from School," Gottfried and Hutt offer a comprehensive and timely resource for educators and policy makers seeking to understand the scope, impact, and causes of chronic student absenteeism. The editors present a series of studies by leading researchers from a variety of disciplines that address which students are missing…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Accountability, Academic Achievement
Ha, Sha – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
According to the 'International Standard Classification of Education' (ISCED), 'Continuing Education' is composed of the 'Continuing Primary and Lower Secondary Adult Education' (ISCED1, ISCED2), followed by the 'Adult Education and Training' System (ISCED3), including an 'Upper Secondary Education System' (ISCED4 and finally, the 'Tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Adult Education, Secondary Education
Chen, Ji-Kang; Chen, Li-Ming – Journal of School Violence, 2020
This study examined the similarities and differences between three distinct Chinese societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China) regarding the contribution of gender and grade level to school violence, the ranking orders of perpetration and victimization behavior, and the correlates of school nonattendance due to violence. A cross-national random…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2019
This report summarizes the academic and post-secondary outcomes for student athletes and non-athletes in the 2017-2018 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Student Athletes, Student Participation, Graduation Rate
Sara R. Shaw; Robert Rauh; Jeff Schmidt; Jason Stein; Rob Henken – Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2024
This report arrives during a time of heightened scrutiny and civic engagement. While public attention is currently trained primarily on Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), this research encompasses the whole of the city's education system, marking both commonalities and differences between different types of publicly funded schools. It highlights…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Funding Formulas, Elementary School Students
Kumar, Deepak; Choudhury, Pradeep Kumar – Journal of School Choice, 2021
This article examines the determinants of private school choice for elementary school students in India with emphasis on school characteristics. We also analyze the gender differences in the demand for private schools among the households, a relatively less explored issue in the school choice literature in India. We find that private schools are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, School Choice, Elementary School Students
Gottfried, Michael A. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2017
Little is known about the effects of attending full-day versus part-day kindergarten for children with disabilities, and nothing is known about how these settings link to differences in children's school absences. This is concerning, given that children with disabilities have higher absence rates compared to children in the general population. To…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Children, Kindergarten, School Schedules
Darling-Aduana, Jennifer; Heinrich, Carolyn – Educational Researcher, 2020
The adoption of telepresence technology in K-12 schools potentially expands students' access to course offerings and new ways of learning, but little is known about its implementation and promise for improving student outcomes. We employ a mixed-methods analysis to examine the experiences of students and teachers in telepresence courses in a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, High School Students, Program Implementation, Outcomes of Education
Terry, Marion; Malik, Amjad – Online Submission, 2020
In response to concerns expressed by high school counselors, the researchers developed a quantitative Likert-scale survey to examine the relationships between academic performance (defined as school attendance and final grades) and recreational video gaming and texting. Questions about video gaming and texting were included with other questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Rural Schools, High School Students
Balu, Rekha; Ehrlich, Stacy B. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
Accumulating evidence indicates that student attendance is closely tied to a range of educational outcomes, and yet millions of students are chronically absent each year. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), schools are now held accountable for their students' attendance at a scale this country has never before seen. As such, this is a…
Descriptors: Incentives, Models, Design, Attendance
Tash, Michael Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Chronic absenteeism affects the majority of schools in the United States. An assessment of centers of learning illustrates that a majority of students miss a month of learning in an academic year through excused or unexcused absences. The majority of schools exhibit 95% average daily attendance rates, as the learners tend to not miss school, on…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Postsecondary Education