(Note: This is the second piece in a two-part series on absenteeism in schools. Read the first part, on seven insights from researchers.) Chronic absenteeism, when students miss 10 percent or more of ...

A board member called the turnaround "phenomenal," saying, "It's not an easy number to improve." ...

Five years after the start of the pandemic, one of the most surprising ways that school has profoundly, and perhaps permanently, changed is that students aren’t showing up. Here are some insights from ...

Chronic absenteeism — missing 10 percent or more of school — surged to unheard-of levels in Massachusetts and across the country amid the pandemic. Despite educators’ efforts to get kids back in class ...

Nearly 1 in 4 Louisiana students was chronically absent last school year — an increase from the previous year, even as most states have seen absenteeism continue to decline after rates soared during ...