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RICHMOND — Efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism within the Edison Local School District are showing promise as officials partner with Harvard University and the Cleveland Browns through the Get to School, Stay in the Game initiative. The district is...

Lots of ideas work fine in theory but not so much in the real world. Ask education researchers Thomas Kane, Jennifer Ash, Dave Hersh, Chris Avery and their teams, who’ve come to this wisdom after years of mixed results in finding concrete ways to improve...

As it begins an ambitious program to increase and improve student attendance, Clermont Northeastern School District has had to answer the most basic question – when is a student actually in school? The answer is more complicated than it was eight months...

McClain High School will collaborate with Harvard University to research and improve student attendance and college and career readiness, McClain Principal Matt Shelton reported at the Greenfield Exempted Village School District (GEVSD) Board of Education...

It can be a difficult task deciding what you want to be for the rest of your life, much less just deciding where to begin after high school, but a couple new programs at McClain aim to help engage more students in preparing for life after graduation. The...

Superintendent Bill Beattie said a panel of district and high school administrators, career readiness and truancy officials recently met to discuss the next level in its initiative through Harvard University which uses the Proving Ground model of evidence...

Sherman Central School will soon be in need of a new superintendent. “This is a chance to move back home,” Michael Ginestre said of becoming superintendent of the Sweet Home Central School District.. “I grew up in the district next to Sweet Home. My...

This is the tenth installment of Improving Improvement, our quarterly series focused on leveraging the power of research-practice partnerships (RPPs) to build schools’, districts’, and states’ capacity to improve. Previously, we shared how we support...

Abstract: According to the United States Department of Education (USDOE), 16% or over eight million kindergarten through twelfth grade students in the US missed 10% or more school days during the 2017−2018 school year. This is approximately 18 of 180 days...

Previously, we shared feedback from current and past partners to determine to what degree their capacity to improve has increased over the last five years, and how we might engage in our own internal continuous improvement efforts to better meet their...