Case Study
Attendance is the cheapest predictor of student outcome we have.
A look at the correlation between attendance signals in School Care and academic outcome four terms downstream, across 230 schools in three jurisdictions.
Every education system already collects attendance. Very few systems use it as a signal.
The signal
A missed day this term correlates more strongly with next year's academic outcome than any curriculum change we have measured. It is cheap, it is available, and it is quietly the most useful piece of data on the ward.