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Robert Gonzalez; Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper we study the impact on student absenteeism of a large school-based community crime monitoring program that employed local community members to monitor and report crime on designated city blocks during students' travel to and from school. We find that the program resulted in a 0.78 percentage point reduction in the school-level…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, School Violence, Crime
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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