Race is more strongly associated with preschool chronic absenteeism than neighborhood poverty; African American students are about twice as likely to be chronically absent¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? African American preschool students from low- or moderate-poverty neighborhoods are about twice as likely to be chronically absent as white students from similar neighborhoods, even after taking neighborhood poverty into account. → Ehrlich 2014

Evidence¶

Ehrlich 2014¶

Ehrlich, S. B., Gwynne, J. A., Pareja, A. S., Allensworth, E. M., Moore, P., Jagesic, S., & Sorice, E. (2014). Preschool Attendance in Chicago Public Schools: Relationships with Learning Outcomes and Reasons for Absences. UChicago CCSR Research Report. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/preschool-attendance-chicago-public-schools-relationships-learning-outcomes-and-reasons

q2 · i? · associational · r3

Observational analysis of 2011-12 attendance records for 24,854 three- and four-year-olds (Figure 5), comparing chronic absence rates across racial/ethnic groups within neighborhood poverty levels. The report found "race has a stronger relationship with chronic absenteeism, even after we consider student's neighborhood poverty level."

"African American preschool students from low- or moderate-poverty neighborhoods are about twice as likely to be chronically absent as white students from similar neighborhoods, and over 1.5 times more likely to be chronically absent as Latino students or students of other races/ethnicities"

Discussion¶

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