On Teacher Absenteeism
One-fifth of New York City teachers missed work for more than two weeks last school year, with absenteeism most acute in some of the poorest districts, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.The reporter goes on to write that in Brownsville, 24.4% of teachers were absent more than ten days, while 22.1% of teachers more than exhausted their leave time in the South Bronx and 13.2% did so in the Upper East Side.
Most of us are familiar with what happens in classrooms when teachers are away. Too often students are given “busy work” assignments, shown films only tangentially related to academic content, or barraged with worksheets and crossword puzzles. The monetary and student achievement costs of teacher absenteeism are
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