Joanne Jacobs
How to get students to show up: Bribery? Tough love?
Paying chronic absentees $50 for each week of perfect attendance -- a desperation move in Oakland high schools -- hasn't made much of a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 82 min read
Please come to school, pretty please, with a cherry on top . . .
Schools are struggling to get students to show up every day. Twenty-six percent of students are chronically absent, missing at least 10...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 112 min read
School's out early: Some students get much less class time than others
Some students get less class time -- and usually learn less.
Joanne Jacobs
May 32 min read
Can't be bothered: Kids are absent from everything, not just school
Chronic absenteeism is way up, writes Robert Pondiscio, but kids aren't just absent from school. A disturbing number of young people are...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 232 min read
Cash for class: Ohio may pay students to show up at school
Ohio may pay students to show up at school, reports Laura A. Bischoff in the Columbus Dispatch. Under the proposed pilot program,...
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