Attendance

Personalized messages—sent via email, text message, robocall, or letters by mail—are a low-effort, low-cost strategy designed to improve attendance by providing families and caregivers with transparent, real-time information about their student’s

This national randomized study finds that low-cost personalized attendance messages to caregivers significantly reduced student absences in rural districts and represent a scalable, cost-effective strategy for improving attendance.

This multi-site randomized study finds that personalized digital attendance messages reduced student absences by 2.4% across rural districts, demonstrating the effectiveness of low-cost informational nudges within a rural research network model.