no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . october 2013 the get schooled foundation industry nonprofit founded 2009 with 501 c 3 status granted in 2010 founder viacom and bill & melinda gates foundation with significant support from at & t headquarters new york city key people marie groark executive director website getschooled.com the get schooled foundation also get schooled or getschooled.com is a non profit organization dedicated to using the power of media technology and popular culture to motivate and inspire young people their families and teachers to improve high school graduation rates and college going rates . get schooled combines powerful national content and programming on air on line and on the ground with school based engagement strategies to ensure both a broad reach and a measurable impact . 1 contents 1 about 2 school attendance 3 programs 4 references 5 external links about edit get schooled focuses on two areas that have the most direct impact on students long term educational success attendance and college affordability . get schooled works with schools school districts and cities around the country to improve attendance rates among middle and high school students . it also focuses on efforts aimed at increasing the number of young people who have the tools and information they need to access financial aid for college . school attendance edit get schooled is one of the few national education organizations focusing on school attendance as a driver of student success . in may 2012 it released a study on the scope and consequence of chronic absenteeism in partnership with johns hopkins university . 2 the report found only a handful of states measure and report on chronic absenteeism which the report defines as missing at least 10 percent of school days in a given year or about 18 days . 3 it estimates that 10 to 15 percent of students nationwide are chronically absent and that adds up to 5 million to 7.5 million students who miss enough school to be at severe risk of dropping out or failing to graduate from high school . 4 the data problem is structural and runs from the school to the state to the federal level . at the school level chronic absenteeism is largely masked by daily attendance rates . a school can report a 90 percent average daily attendance rate and have 40 percent of students chronically absent because on different days different students make up the 90 percent . schools know that students are missing but don t look at the data by student to show individual absenteeism rates . 5 key findings include students who are chronically absent in one year will likely be so in subsequent years and may miss more than half a year of school over four or five years . 6 urban schools often have chronic absentee rates as high as one third of students while poor rural areas are in the 25 percent range . 7 while the problem affects youth of all backgrounds children in poverty are more likely to be chronically absent . in maryland chronic absentee rates for poor students were more than 30 percent compared to less than 12 percent for students from more affluent families . 8 chronically absent students tended to be concentrated in a relatively small number of schools . in florida 52 percent of chronically absent students were in just 15 percent of schools . 9 in some school districts kindergarten absenteeism rates are nearly as high as those in high school . 10 the magnitude of the problem is likely understated as balfanz and his researchers could find chronic absenteeism reported for only six states georgia florida maryland nebraska oregon and rhode island . several states including california and new york do not even collect the individual data needed to calculate chronic absenteeism . 11 the impact of these missed days is dramatic students are less likely to score well on achievement tests and less likely to graduate . 12 students who miss 10 percent of school days on average score in the 30th percentile on standardized reading and math tests compared to those with zero absences scoring in the 50th percentile . 13 looking at data from multiple states and school districts the researchers found that consistently high chronic absenteeism was the strongest predictor of dropping out of high school stronger even than course failures suspension or test scores . data from georgia showed a very strong relationship between attendance in grades 8 10 and graduation . there was as much as a 50 percentage point difference in graduation rates for students who missed five or fewer days compared to those who missed 15 or more days . 14 these findings have been extrapolated into a user friendly attendance calculator that allows users to see a personalized view of the impact of missed days on the likelihood of graduating and on math and reading achievement tests . 15 programs edit school based challenges get schooled partners directly with schools on a series of friendly competitions aimed at increasing student engagement and behavior whether around school attendance or the completion of financial aid forms . close to 200 schools have participated in a challenge and schools have seen attendance gains of as much as 8.56 percent . winning schools include chaparral high school las vegas east high school des moines thurgood marshall high school washington aki kurose middle school academy seattle and lincoln high school warren michigan . and most recently in 2013 bethel regional high school won the future forward challenge get schooled college affordability challenge get schooled and mtv launched the college affordability challenge in the fall of 2010 . recognizing the difficulty in finding the information student s need to access financial aid mtv called on its audience for creative technology based ideas aimed at making it easier to navigate the financial aid maze . the contest was one of mtv s most popular with hundreds of submission from across the country . the winner devin valencia s idea for a facebook app was announced at clinton global initiative university cgi university in san diego in april . the app was launched for widespread use in november 2011 . wake up and get schooled the get schooled foundation and numerous celebrities partnered to creatively motivate teens across the country to improve their attendance by getting up and getting to school on time . more than 85 000 high school students receive morning wake up calls that feature recorded motivational messages from their favorite celebrity . the program started in september 2011 and is an ongoing program . many celebrities whom students admire and respect including one direction ciara greyson chance nicki minaj jesse mccartney have pre recorded calls . the pilot program with the mayor of new york city s office anti truancy taskforce yielded positive results chronic absenteeism was down by 24 % over last year at several new york city elementary schools and at the eight participating middle schools truancy was reduced by 16 % . 16 get schooled celebrity ambassadors the ambassador integrates celebrities that resonate with tweens and teens to help enforce the message about the importance of education . celebrities who have supported the cause include victoria justice tyra banks nicki minaj trey songz christian slater george lopez jennifer hudson and more . references edit about us get schooled getschooled.com . accessed 2012 8 24 . chronic absenteeism report the importance of being in school a report on absenteeism in the nation s public schools . accessed 2012 8 24 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 3 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 3 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 3 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 13 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 4 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 20 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 21 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 18 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 3 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 27 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 27 . balfanz & byrnes 2012 p. 9 . attendance calculator get schooled getschooled.com . accessed 2012 8 24 . nyc department of education schools.nyc.gov . accessed 2012 8 24 . external links edit johns hopkins university school of education s center for social organization of schools http education.jhu.edu research crre defjam rapstar & get schooled challenge http online.wsj.com article pr co 20110222 910530.html linkedin http www.linkedin.com company get schooled foundation white house commencement challenge http www.whitehouse.gov commencement getschooled college affordability challenge http www.mtv.com shows get schooled series.jhtml wake up & get schooled http www.pbs.org newshour rundown 2011 12 celebrity calls urge students to get up get schooled.html my college dollars scholarship search tool http www.fastcompany.com 1809070 mtv my college dollars jason rzepka attendance research new york times & huffington post coverage http www.nytimes.com 2012 05 17 education up to 15 percent of students 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