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Don’t Quit on Me

September 06, 2015

This report examines, from the perspective of young people themselves, the roles that relationships with adults and peers play in decisions about staying in, leaving and returning to high school.

Type: Report

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Attendance, College & Career, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Highscope Preschool

January 15, 2014

The HighScope curriculum is an educational approach originally based largely on Piaget's interactional theory of child development. This curriculum aims to promote active learning by providing many opportunities for children to initiate their own activities and take responsibility for completing them. Most of the children attend the program for two years at ages 3 and 4. The classroom program meets for half-days (2.5 hours per day), five days a week for 7 months of the year, with 90-minute weekly home visits by preschool teachers.

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Re-engaging Youth, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

Growing Healthy Readers: A Starter Kit for Sponsoring Coalitions to Strengthen Health and Learning

June 10, 2013

This starter kit helps communities identify important children’s health issues and integrate strategies that address them into their work to improve grade-level reading outcomes.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Family Engagement, Attendance

SOURCE: The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Attendance in Early Elementary Grades: Association with Student Characteristics, School Readiness and Third Grade Outcomes

June 10, 2013

This study suggests that attendance in the early grades is critical to sustaining the school readiness skills that preschool or Head Start programs can help children to develop. The report found that students who arrived at school academically ready to learn— but then missed 10 percent of their kindergarten and first grade years—scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third-grade reading tests.

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Attendance Works

Pathways Mapping Initiative: Pathway to Children Ready for School and Succeeding at Third Grade

June 10, 2013

The School Readiness Pathway is a broad and coherent body of information about what it takes to increase the number of children who are ready for school learning at the time of school entry. It highlights actions that individuals and organizations can take to achieve three crucial goals: good health, supportive social and cognitive environments, and safe, strong neighborhoods.

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Present, Engaged and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades

June 10, 2013

This report documents the consequences, prevalence, potential causes and possible solutions to children missing extended periods of school in grades K-3rd. Although students must be present and engaged to learn, thousands of this country’s youngest students are academically at-risk because of extended absences when they first embark upon their school careers. Nationally, an estimated one in 10 kindergarten and first grade students are chronically absent.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: National Center for Children in Poverty

Reading on Grade Level in Third Grade: How is it Related to High School Performance and College Enrollment? 

June 10, 2013

This study examines whether third grade reading level can be used as an indicator for four future educational outcomes measures such as: eighth grade reading level, ninth-grade course performance, high  school graduation, and college attendance.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Annie E. Casey Foundation

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development, The Differential Effects of School Exposure

June 10, 2013

Despite the substantial body of research documenting strong relationships between social class and children’s cognitive abilities, researchers have generally neglected the extent to which school absenteeism exacerbates social class differences in academic development among young children. This study suggests that missing school in the early grades has a more powerful influence on literacy development for low-income students than it does for their more affluent peers. Put another way, school matters more to children from low-income families.

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood, Using Data

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: American Sociologist Association

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development: The Differential Effects of School Exposure

June 10, 2013

This study looks at the extent to which school absences in the early grades exacerbate class differences and fuel the nagging achievement gap.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: American Sociologist Association

Strengthening Schools by Strengthening Families: Community Strategies to Reverse Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades and Improve Supports for Children and Families

June 10, 2013

This report presents the findings of a research project analyzing ways that community organizations and schools could work together to ease the burden of New York City’s child welfare system, which has been overwhelmed with cases of educational neglect.  

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Family Engagement, Attendance

SOURCE: Center for New York City Affairs at the New School