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Dr. Kara Stern

Dr. Kara Stern is Director of Education at SchoolStatus, where she works with districts nationwide on attendance and family engagement strategies. A former high school teacher, middle school principal, and head of school, she holds a doctorate in Teaching and Learning from NYU.

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From the Author:

Mental Health and Student Attendance: The Intervention Hiding in Plain Sight

A punitive response to a late or absent student, the recorded tardy, the “you’re late again,” doesn’t just fail to help. It adds to the weight a struggling student is already carrying.

Attendance Tracking Has a Measurement Problem

As more states and districts move toward time-based and period-by-period attendance tracking, traditional measurement tools struggle to keep up.

Absenteeism Is Predictable. We Must Learn to Read the Patterns.

Absenteeism is predictable. The signs are there. You just need to know how to read them.

When Parents Trust Schools, Student Attendance Improves

I recently helped analyze survey data from over 1,000 K–12 families about what they want from schools, and this insight stopped me cold: parents are asking for more communication than we’re giving them, especially when it comes to attendance.

What Do We Already Know About Our High Schoolers?

The recent cancellation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 17-year-olds has sparked legitimate concerns about lost data.

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