For most of us who attended public school, handling an absence was pretty straightforward. If you were out, your parents likely sent you back to school, sometimes with a note, and that was that. Attendance, for the most part, [...]

In our last post, we talked about how we have to look outside the walls of our schools themselves to see the real-life responsibilities and daily life disruptions that can keep a student from making it to class. That [...]

Previous posts in the series highlight the numbers around the chronic absentee issue facing Kentucky schools across the state. In this post, we consider the story these numbers can’t tell. Identifying who is missing school and how much school [...]

The chronic absenteeism numbers we looked at in our last post were a wake-up call, particularly since these aren’t just numbers on a page, but real students walking into classrooms every day. Our first post made it clear that [...]

The Kentucky Department of Education's Strategic Planning and Research team is excited to launch the KDE Research Blog—a new online resource dedicated to sharing research, data, and strategic insights on the issues shaping education across the Commonwealth. New articles [...]