In Rhode Island and other states, teacher and student absences rose during the COVID pandemic and then partially receded, demonstrating a shift in attendance patterns in which teacher absences might ...

One relatively simple and low-cost intervention for rural districts has the potential to reduce student absences by nearly 5%, according to new research. That intervention: Sending periodic, ...

The El Paso Independent School District potentially lost about $3.25 million in state funding during the 2023-24 school year over unexcused absences and poor attendance reporting, according to an ...

As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

As almost all school people know by now, the number of public school students who are chronically absent has ballooned. Our analysis showed chronic absenteeism at almost 30 percent or 14.7 million ...

Some of the classes at our university have unfair and unrealistic attendance policies. There are people who have no choice but to miss it or have other responsibilities that overlap take issue with ...

Loudoun County Schools Superintendent Aaron Spence. (Courtesy Loudoun County Public Schools) The number of students missing 18 or more school days a year is declining in Loudoun County Public Schools, ...

One to unlimited. That’s the range of absences I’m allowed in my classes before it affects my grade. In my class with the most extreme attendance policy, one excused absence is permitted, and every ...

At Michigan State University, the attendance policy for undergraduate students is merely a set of guidelines: Students can receive an excused absence for a grief-related instance, medical emergency, ...