Black fourth-graders in Mississippi, one of our poorest states, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be proficient in reading as black students in California.

Immigrant students from families at risk of deportation are safer at school than anywhere else.

Bell-to-bell smartphone bans led to slightly higher test scores and attendance, says a new study.

Teachers are being encouraged not to report suspected child neglect or abuse -- or chronic absenteeism -- to keep families together.

Birmingham (Alabama) schools will offer a $500 prize to two lucky families at each school -- if they get their child to school on the first day.

Passing students who don't show up regularly or do the work is "just crazy," says an "A" students -- and many of her teachers in Chicago.

Paying chronic absentees $50 for each week of perfect attendance -- a desperation move in Oakland high schools -- hasn't made much of a...

Schools are struggling to get students to show up every day. Twenty-six percent of students are chronically absent, missing at least 10...

Nearly 200 low-income families living in Birmingham (Alabama) public housing qualified for a drawing worth $300 in rent and utility...

Some students get less class time -- and usually learn less.

Absenteeism -- physical and mental -- is high for college students too.

Chronic absenteeism is way up, writes Robert Pondiscio, but kids aren't just absent from school. A disturbing number of young people are...

Four years ago, schools across the country closed their doors. It was supposed to be for two weeks or three or . . . Most schools stayed...

Ohio may pay students to show up at school, reports Laura A. Bischoff in the Columbus Dispatch. Under the proposed pilot program,...