Tonya Wolford
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Impact Study
A Randomized Experiment Using Absenteeism Information to "Nudge" Attendance
Reducing student absenteeism is a key part of the School District of Philadelphia's plan to boost graduation rates. One of the district's goals is to increase guardians' awareness of absenteeism, with the hope that greater awareness will lead to guardians' taking a more active role in improving their student's attendance and academic performance. In an effort to increase guardians' awareness of absenteeism, the School District of Philadelphia partnered with Regional Educational Laboratory (RE...
Feb 01, 2017
Grant
The School District of Philadelphia-Penn Graduate School of Education Researcher-Practitioner Partnership in Education Research
Through this partnership, SDP and Penn GSE worked to build a structured, formalized research alliance between the two organizations. Creating the alliance would build the capacity of both organizations; improve research-to-practice links; enable the study the district's approaches to school reform, and establish a foundation for future, larger scale collaborative impact studies.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305H140097