NCCP | Present, Engaged, and Accounted For

NCCP | Present, Engaged, and Accounted For

At the core of school improvement and education reform is an
assumption so widely understood that it is rarely invoked: students
have to be present and engaged in order to learn. That is why the
discovery that thousands of our youngest students are at
academically at-risk because of extended absences when they first
embark upon their school careers is as remarkable as it is
consequential. Schools and communities have a choice: we can work
together early on to ensure families get their children to class
consistently or we can pay later for failing to intervene before
problems are more difficult and costly to ameliorate.

http://nccp.org/publications/pub_837.html