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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]