{"id":98587,"date":"2026-06-01T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98587"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:25:48","slug":"what-michigan-schools-reveal-about-reversing-chronic-absenteeism-time-intensive-home-visits-show-promise-barshay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/06\/01\/what-michigan-schools-reveal-about-reversing-chronic-absenteeism-time-intensive-home-visits-show-promise-barshay\/","title":{"rendered":"What Michigan schools reveal about reversing chronic absenteeism | Time-intensive home visits show promise [Barshay]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/proof-points-michigan-absenteeism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What Michigan schools reveal about reversing chronic absenteeism<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jill Barshay<br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Time-intensive home visits show promise<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation\u2019s public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates in the country.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nYet a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/detroitpeer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Identifying-Effective-Attendance-Strategies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>\u00a0released in May offers hope. Researchers found that some Michigan schools appear to be substantially better than others at getting students to show up, and identified one intervention \u2014 frequent home visits to families whose children are absent from class \u2014 that was used more often by schools making a difference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The findings are a reminder that \u201cbest practices\u201d recommendations often overstate what researchers actually know. Schools can make a meaningful difference in attendance, but identifying genuinely successful schools is hard, isolating why they succeed is even harder, and simple solutions rarely hold up under scrutiny.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Michigan schools reveal about reversing chronic absenteeism &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jill Barshay Time-intensive home visits show promise Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation\u2019s public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates in the country. &#8230; Yet a new\u00a0study\u00a0released in May offers hope. Researchers found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,74,7,385,560,279,217,480,20,66,89,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-michigan","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-research","category-society","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98589,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98587\/revisions\/98589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}