Chronic absenteeism is a problem plaguing the education system and indicates a lack of motivation among students. There are also long-term effects associated with missing school, which could ...

As educators nationwide grapple with stubbornly high levels of student absences since the pandemic drove schools into ...

And at the extreme ends of the absenteeism spectrum ... While it’s hardly surprising that only 18% of Rhode Island’s ...

The trend upward in high school graduations in New Jersey was a cause for some optimism after years of effects from the COVID ...

The report notes there are many schools that have low rates of absenteeism despite serving primarily minority and low-income students. For example, the Pathways College Preparatory School ...

On their website, officials said chronic absenteeism predicts low academic success, and it also predicts who may eventually drop out of school. "Being chronically absent from school makes it hard ...

In some schools which resign themselves to low attendance rate during such periods, lessons are even cancelled, thus indirectly encouraging group absenteeism. To counteract this, most schools have ...

The Lodi Unified school board received a needs assessment report last Tuesday that focused on 16 low-performing district schools, eight of which are in Lodi. The selected schools showed “low” ...