Marc Oestreich writes for National Review Online about the continuing problem of chronic school absenteeism. This is the season when schools begin counting the missing. Not the children who vanished…
Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon write for the American Enterprise Institute about one benefit of high school sports. Examining day-level attendance records and varsity participation data for roughly 262,000 Indiana…
Sam Hollon, Nat Malkus, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, and Jeremy Singer examine recent school attendance data for the American Enterprise Institute. The researchers find troubling results linger in the nation years…
Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon explore the continuing impact of the nation’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and schools’ responses to it resulted in learning loss…
Teacher Mike Dowd writes for the New York Post about the decay of public education in the nation’s largest city. Officials love to brag about the 84% graduation rate for…
The New York post documents disturbing news about local public school graduates. Nearly half of all New York City public school graduates who head to local community colleges are forced…
According to Attendance Works, chronic absenteeism is on the rise, though data collection challenges remain. The U.S. Department of Education defines chronic absenteeism as missing 15 or more days during a…
The Buncombe County Commissioners will receive a report on the county’s strategies for dealing with swine and seasonal flu. It was a given that swine flu hype would extend the…
WBTV notes that student and teacher absences sky-rocketed yesterday, Memorial Day. The details: According to a CMS spokesperson, 39,396 students were absent and most of them were unexcused absences. There…
Two weeks into the school year and already, Chapel Hill-Carrboro public school teachers appear to be taking long weekends by calling in sick.
Terry, So how much do scores go up for each 10 days missed by an administrator? Or better yet, how much would they go up if DPI resigned? And with…