On the other side of the country, another effort, housed at Harvard University, is also helping districts tackle chronic absenteeism. Started in 2015, the Proving Ground program helps school districts leverage data to design, plan, implement and test interventions to improve learning outcomes. The program has 59 school district partners, most of them in New York and Ohio.
One of its first successful intervention programs involved weekly postcards sent home...
Proving Ground Director David Hersch and NCRERN Director Jennifer Ash launch a new series, "Improving Improvement," in NNERPP Extra focused on leveraging the power of research-practice partnerships (RPPs) to build schools’, districts’, and states’ capacity to improve.... Read more about Improving Improvement: Introduction
Dean Kaplan is a research analyst at CEPR. As an analyst, Dean focuses on the efficacy of interventions that combat absenteeism in K-12 schools. Prior to... Read more about Dean Kaplan
The following announcement by the Ohio Department of Education outlines its collaboration with Proving Ground, as they work together to address chronic absenteeism.
