Attendance in the early grades is critical to sustaining the school readiness skills that preschool or Head Start programs can help children to develop. In a report, “Attendance in Early Elementary Grades,” we learn that students who arrived at school academically ready to learn – but then missed 10 percent of their kindergarten and first grade years – scored, on average, 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third-grade reading tests. Learn more here: attendanceworks.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ASR-Mini-Report-Attendance-Readiness-and-Third-Grade-Outcomes-7-8-11.pdf.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:35:54 +0000
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