{"id":2287,"date":"2012-12-09T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2012-12-09T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:12:26","slug":"teacher-absenteeism-is-a-leading-indicator-of-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/teacher-absenteeism-is-a-leading-indicator-of-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Absenteeism is a “Leading Indicator” of Student Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new paper recently released by the Center for American Progress<\/a> argues that excessive teacher absences, as might be expected, cause decreases in student achievement and waste school district resources. However, the paper asserts that problem of these excessive absences could be fairly easily alleviated because \u201cthe vast variation in teacher absence behavior means there is room in many districts and individual schools for teachers to have adequate access to paid leave while being absent less frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Basing its report on the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s biennial Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) survey, which for the first time included teacher absences, the Center for American Progress and its lead author Raegan Miller conclude that teacher absences should be seen as a \u201cleading indicator\u201d of student achievement.<\/p>\n

The following are the key findings of the report:<\/p>\n