How Can California Help Prepare New Teachers to Address Chronic Absenteeism? (Sacramento)

UC Center Sacramento is hosting Professor Michael Gottfried, UC Santa Barbara, and Ethan Hutt, University of Maryland, College Park, to address chronic absenteeism in California. Though California's policymakers are beginning to hold schools accountable for reducing chronic absenteeism, little attention has been paid to the role of teachers. Data was collected by issuing surveys in 2017-2018 from graduating cohorts of teachers from teacher education programs across California. Questions were related to pre-service and whether pre-service teachers feel as though they are graduating with adequate knowledge about chronic absenteeism and how to address absence issues as well as collected data on perceptions of the usefulness of their credentialing programs. Learn more.