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30
Jul
Kindergarten Enrollment Fell Last Year. Now Schools Wonder How Many Kids Are Coming
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58202/kindergarten-enrollment-fell-last-year-now-schools-wonder-how-many-kids-are-coming Elia Garrison was already considering holding her son Dominic back from starting kindergarten before the pandemic hit in 2020. Coronavirus, she says, cemented that choice. Dominic is the fifth of six children, and Garrison, a blogger in Perkasie, Pa., watched how tumultuous classes were for her older ones when the pandemic started. “I didn’t […]
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16
Mar
Worldwide Commission Seeks to Find Missing Kids
Worldwide Commission to Educate All Kids (Post-Pandemic) Commission Chair: Dr. Irvin Studin, President, Institute for 21st Century Questions (Toronto) Issue: Hundreds of millions of kids are not attending any school. We must raise the profile and interest in this issue and then create actions in every country. Actions include connecting with all schools and within community […]
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9
Jul
Minnesota Ambassador Shares Out of School Data
Elmer Koch shared MN “Students Not in School” Data at the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association (MESPA) annual convention (MESPA INSTITUTE, February 5-7). Here’s how he made it happen! This MESPA Institute is and has been the premier professional development opportunity for our MN principals. As part of this year’s schedule they tried an innovative […]
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5
Sep
Chronic Absentee Rates in US by School and District
Where Chronic Student Absence is a Problem and Strategies to Make Progress: https://brook.gs/2CoRl6V Brookings published an informative article that identifies the chronic absenteeism of every US school district and school using an interactive map. This article also suggests strategies to addressing chronic absenteeism. A logistic regression analysis identified the following four predictive sixth grade early warning […]
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22
May
Atlanta Principal Utilizes Volunteer Attorneys to Keep Kids in School
CBS news story describes a volunteer attorney program aiding parents in low income housing by addressing wrongful evictions and deplorable conditions. Last year 20 evictions from 81 cases were stopped. Turnover dropped from 40% to 25% in one year. Standardized test scores rose 50% in one year. Students were attending school and becoming “Students of […]
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22
May
Latest ACS Data
Over 5,900,000 of school-age children in the United States are not attending a school. The American Community Survey collected data that estimated the number of students, from age 3-17, who are not attending any kind of school. These data are collected for the US Census Bureau and we believe it is used for the UNESCO […]
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27
Apr
Chronic Absenteeism
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, has published a study on the chronic absenteeism in US high schools. This report is very relevant to one of WEF-USA’s focus areas of identifying students who are not attending school. The abstract for the report states: “The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; 2015) requires states […]
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1
Aug
2015 ACS Data on School Enrollment in USA
Over 5,600,000 of school-age children in the United States are not attending a school. The American Community Survey collected data that estimated the number of students, from age 3-17, who are not attending any kind of school. These data are collected for the US Census Bureau and we believe it is used for the UNESCO […]
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23
Jun
258,000,000 Children in the World Are Not Receiving an Education
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 has a desired outcome that all countries in the world will provide quality education for all children as a key contributor to ensure a safe and productive world. A UNESCO report summarizes recent global information on school attendance and reports that, in 2018, 258 million children are not […]
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21
May
Why Aren’t Millions of Students in School
The results from a recent UNESCO study are very disappointing to us. UNESCO has been a driving force in promoting the betterment of underdeveloped countries throughout the world. One of UNESCO’s programs was the establishment of Sustainable Development Goals(SDG), which included education of children as well as economic considerations. As part of assessing the status […]
Read More
Kindergarten Enrollment Fell Last Year. Now Schools Wonder How Many Kids Are Coming
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58202/kindergarten-enrollment-fell-last-year-now-schools-wonder-how-many-kids-are-coming Elia Garrison was already considering holding her son Dominic back from starting kindergarten before the pandemic hit in 2020. Coronavirus, she says, cemented that choice. Dominic is the fifth of six children, and Garrison, a blogger in Perkasie, Pa., watched how tumultuous classes were for her older ones when the pandemic started. “I didn’t […]
Read More
Worldwide Commission Seeks to Find Missing Kids
Worldwide Commission to Educate All Kids (Post-Pandemic) Commission Chair: Dr. Irvin Studin, President, Institute for 21st Century Questions (Toronto) Issue: Hundreds of millions of kids are not attending any school. We must raise the profile and interest in this issue and then create actions in every country. Actions include connecting with all schools and within community […]
Read More
Minnesota Ambassador Shares Out of School Data
Elmer Koch shared MN “Students Not in School” Data at the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association (MESPA) annual convention (MESPA INSTITUTE, February 5-7). Here’s how he made it happen! This MESPA Institute is and has been the premier professional development opportunity for our MN principals. As part of this year’s schedule they tried an innovative […]
Read More
Chronic Absentee Rates in US by School and District
Where Chronic Student Absence is a Problem and Strategies to Make Progress: https://brook.gs/2CoRl6V Brookings published an informative article that identifies the chronic absenteeism of every US school district and school using an interactive map. This article also suggests strategies to addressing chronic absenteeism. A logistic regression analysis identified the following four predictive sixth grade early warning […]
Read More
Atlanta Principal Utilizes Volunteer Attorneys to Keep Kids in School
CBS news story describes a volunteer attorney program aiding parents in low income housing by addressing wrongful evictions and deplorable conditions. Last year 20 evictions from 81 cases were stopped. Turnover dropped from 40% to 25% in one year. Standardized test scores rose 50% in one year. Students were attending school and becoming “Students of […]
Read More
Latest ACS Data
Over 5,900,000 of school-age children in the United States are not attending a school. The American Community Survey collected data that estimated the number of students, from age 3-17, who are not attending any kind of school. These data are collected for the US Census Bureau and we believe it is used for the UNESCO […]
Read More
Chronic Absenteeism
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, has published a study on the chronic absenteeism in US high schools. This report is very relevant to one of WEF-USA’s focus areas of identifying students who are not attending school. The abstract for the report states: “The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; 2015) requires states […]
Read More
2015 ACS Data on School Enrollment in USA
Over 5,600,000 of school-age children in the United States are not attending a school. The American Community Survey collected data that estimated the number of students, from age 3-17, who are not attending any kind of school. These data are collected for the US Census Bureau and we believe it is used for the UNESCO […]
Read More
258,000,000 Children in the World Are Not Receiving an Education
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 has a desired outcome that all countries in the world will provide quality education for all children as a key contributor to ensure a safe and productive world. A UNESCO report summarizes recent global information on school attendance and reports that, in 2018, 258 million children are not […]
Read More
Why Aren’t Millions of Students in School
The results from a recent UNESCO study are very disappointing to us. UNESCO has been a driving force in promoting the betterment of underdeveloped countries throughout the world. One of UNESCO’s programs was the establishment of Sustainable Development Goals(SDG), which included education of children as well as economic considerations. As part of assessing the status […]
Read More