With winter term kicking off, we’ve all gotten used to syllabus day where professors go over their policies, their course ...

In partnership with the Champaign County Community Coalition, Champaign Unit #4 and Urbana SD #116 are combating chronic ...

East Ramapo, a district that has among the lowest test scores in the state, suffers from a significant chronic absentee rate.

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College led to a mass unplugging by curious undergrads. Some found clarity; ...

The Calaveras County Office of Education recently held its Attendance Counts Poster Contest to reinforce the importance of regular school attendance and encourage students’ creativity. Now in its ...

Missing too much school will hurt a student's test scores, no matter the school — and even in an era of online learning, when some assignments can be completed from home, researchers say after ...

A community effort to improve student attendance after the pandemic recently garnered national attention for Springfield Public Schools. Superintendent Grenita Lathan submitted a proposal to share ...

For the second year in a row, Detroit Public Schools Community District is bringing back its attendance incentive program, which gives high school students the opportunity to earn money for showing up ...

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at [email protected]. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...

LANSING – The Lansing School District made a change to its athletics code of conduct this week, limiting attendance by high school students to athletic contests to Lansing students or those from the ...

Liverpool, N.Y. -- A year ago, Liverpool High School officials were staring at a frustrating problem common among school districts: Far too few students were coming to class. Then, nearly one-third of ...