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Connect-Text: Leveraging Text-Message Communication to Mitigate Chronic Absenteeism and Improve Parental Engagement in the Earliest Years of Schooling
Kenneth Smythe-Leistico; Lindsay C. Page
Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk Vol. 23, No. 1 (2018) pp. 139–152
Poor school attendance in the early grades is predictive of poor subsequent educational outcomes. We report on a pilot intervention aiming to reduce chronic absenteeism in kindergarten. We designed and implemented a two-way, text-based parent-school ...