How one innovative school is helping to combat chronic absenteeism

Anna Graves is the founder of The Field Academy in Denver, Colorado, a traveling high school that this academic year is collaborating with the Aurora Public Schools, the Englewood Public Schools, Stead Charter School, and alternative schools within the Denver metro area to address chronic absenteeism and credit recovery in creative ways. High school students who are not showing up to school, and who have either been referred to the truancy court or are at risk of being referred, are picked up in The Field Academy van each day to learn throughout the community in an immersive, personalized environment.  "Confronting Chronic Absenteeism" (The 74) *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.