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Linking Getting to School With Going to School
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Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners have recently aligned efforts to reduce school absenteeism, particularly during kindergarten when excessive absences are highest out of all elementary grades. Little is known, however, about whether the way in which students get to school might influence if they go to school. To address this gap, this study was the first to address the role of school bus-taking on reducing school absences. Using a national large-scale dataset of children (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class of 2010–2011), the findings suggest that children who took the school bus to kindergarten had fewer absent days over the school year and were less likely to be chronically absent compared with children who commuted to school in any other way. Given that many districts are considering cutting or restricting bus services, this study brings to question whether doing so might limit the resources upon which families rely to ensure their children attend school each day. Implications are discussed.
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“The concept of truancy also tends to be associated with lower socioeconomic youth who experience barriers to attending school such as domestic and neighborhood violence, unstable housing conditions, lack of school supplies, housing and transportation problems, and safety concerns coming to school”
From Reconciling Contemporary Approaches to School Attendance and School Absenteeism: Toward Promotion and Nimble Response, Global Policy Review and Implementation, and Future Adaptability (Part 1) (2019) · cites this paper as Gottfried, 2017
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- Authors
- Gottfried, M. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gottfried, Michael A.
- Venue
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
- Published
- 2017-04-11
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 571-592
- ISSN
- 0162-3737 (ISSN-L)
- 1935-1062
- OpenAlex
- W2607714331
- Semantic Scholar
- ee097ec4898cf6a7fc96fa535696c336d8a7684c
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 13
- FWCI
- 40.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Stuart Foundation (N/A)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- school bus transportation, school absenteeism, chronic absenteeism, kindergarten attendance, student commuting, school attendance
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