Pittsburgh will close public schools for three days in late April because the NFL draft is coming to town, potentially causing traffic problems. Students will be "learning at home," which means that most will not be learning. Only one of the district's 54 schools is in the city core, close to the event, writes Salena Zito in the Washington Examiner . One-third of Pittsburgh's public school students are chronic absentees. The implicit message of the three-day closure -- if

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,...