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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...