A new study released this week reveals that chronic absenteeism continues to plague America's school systems as teachers struggle to keep students in the classroom throughout the year.
“Ninety percent of students attended school on a regular day this fall, according to a new federal study. Experts say that number remains too low amid public concern about rising chronic absenteeism. ” he said. washington post I wrote about it in a recent report.
The remaining 10% of students are chronically absent from school, meaning they are “missing at least 18 days of school, equivalent to 10% of the school year,” the Post reported.
New report shows the majority of students attend schools with high or severe chronic absenteeism
A new study released Thursday reveals that chronic student absenteeism continues to plague America's school systems. (St. Petersburg)
The data was released on Thursday. National Center for Educational Statistics And it follows other studies that have tracked alarmingly high absenteeism rates years after the coronavirus pandemic.
A study published in August by Stanford Research found that more than 25% of students fall into the following categories: chronically absent For the 2021-22 school year, for missing at least 10% of the academic year. By comparison, just 15% of students had such high absenteeism rates before the pandemic, the study found.
Between the 2018-19 and 2021-22 academic years, the percentage of students classified as chronically absent increased by 13.5 percentage points. This increase represents a 91% jump and suggests that an estimated 6.5 million more students are now in the chronic absentee category than before the pandemic.
“We simply cannot accept chronic absenteeism as the new normal,” White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tande said at an event Wednesday, according to the Post. She said, “If students want to learn, they have to be present.”
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Forensic psychiatrist Carol Lieberman told Fox News Digital in a statement that student absenteeism has a far-reaching impact on the American economy.
Forensic psychiatrist Carol Lieberman told Fox News Digital in a statement that student absenteeism has a far-reaching impact on the American economy.
“The economic impact of school absenteeism is enormous, both in terms of the ultimate earning potential of absent students and in terms of the economy as a whole,” Lieberman wrote. “Absenteeism leads to lower grades in children's schools, which makes them feel discouraged and causes many to drop out before graduating from high school. Most of them end up in dead-end, low-paying jobs. I will be working.”
Before the pandemic, 25% of all enrolled students attended schools with chronic absenteeism or extreme chronic absenteeism.
Fox News' Joshua Q. Nelson and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
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