Health and Student Attendance: Considerations for Dropout Prevention

Autor/in	Taras, Howard
Titel	Health and Student Attendance: Considerations for Dropout Prevention
Quelle	In: State Education Standard, 10 (2009) 1, S.32-37 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1540-8000
Schlagwörter	Graduation Rate; Dropout Prevention; Dropouts; Chronic Illness; Attendance; Average Daily Attendance; Health Conditions; Child Health; Change Strategies; Parent Role; School Role; Comprehensive School Health Education; Integrated Services + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Anwesenheit; Lösungsstrategie; Parental role; Elternrolle
Abstract	School administrators and teachers are often implicated, when the topic of dropouts and low graduation rates arises, for their alleged failure to make schools effectively engaging for students and their families. However, this may be simplifying a situation that is comprised of many complexities. Even an amply inspiring school program may not succeed when a family has logistical, psychological, health, and emotional factors pulling a child in the opposite direction. Multiple student absences from school characteristically precede failure to graduate--and these absences do not typically begin in secondary school. Parents usually attribute school absences to illness. There are reasons to believe that chronic illnesses are not a primary driver of poor attendance problems and certainly not a major factor in the dropout crisis. This article describes the thinking behind why some students have multiple sick-days during school-age years, the frustration it induces in educators, and how schools can best address the problem of illness-related absences and ensure that sick days don't lead to school failure. (Contains 7 resources.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10