A surge in students’ chronic absenteeism since the return to in-person classes hasn’t discriminated, threatening academic recovery in schools of all sizes and demographic makeups across the country.

March 5, 2026 - Teachers are striking for better pay, benefits and class size. But school districts say their budgets are extremely tight and they’re contemplating layoffs. After years of working to ...

Chronic absenteeism skyrocketed during the pandemic, creating major challenges for teachers and school administrators eager to bring students back to regular classroom routines. But for many schools, ...

Since the pandemic, schools have become political battlegrounds, where seemingly every issue is polarized: school closures, mask mandates, teachings about race and sexuality, school choice, the ...

Nearly half of high schoolers attending a West Rock environmental charter school were “chronically absent” during the first two months of the school year — an uptick that school leaders are working to ...

A silent crisis is unfolding in our schools and impacting millions of California students: chronic absenteeism. The consequences of unchecked absenteeism are severe and far-reaching. It starts ...

The high number of primary and secondary schools teachers dodging English language training has been cited as one of the handicaps of the programme that seeks to train over 40,000 tutors in the ...

Anthony James receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education. He was co-principal investigator of a school climate transformation grant (SCTG), with co-principal investigator Sarah Woodruff of ...