Public schools' response to the pandemic has caused permanent damage.

Teens aren't quite as sad or suicidal as they were in 2021, reports the CDC, but violence, bullying and school avoidance are up.

President Biden's education agenda deserves a D.

Urban charter students made significant gains in reading and math in a summer program that combined instruction and enrichment, reports...

"God knows, we don't pay you enough," Kamala Harris told teachers at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston. That went...

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

Funding schools based on enrollment rather than attendance would be "more equitable," a superintendent told Rick Hess as they waited to...

Worried about a nationwide epidemic of absenteeism, more schools are telling parents to send slightly sick children to school, reports...

Reading and math scores are on their way up, reports the Education Recovery Scorecard. On average, students in grades three through eight...

Tracking down absent students and persuading their parents to get them to school every day is a booming business, writes Alex MacGillis...

"Rosie" averaged an 83 in core classes and tested more than two months above grade level in fifth grade in 2019. She was absent three...

You can't win if you don't play. The only way to improve student achievement is to "get butts in seats," writes Jessica Grose in the New...

School is "like being in prison," says 14-year-old Kieran, who has dyslexia and ADHD. He prefers doing physical labor with his father....

Mentors, home visits, data analysis and movie visits for students and grocery gift cards for parents are among the strategies used to get...

Chronic absenteeism -- missing 18+ days of a 180-day school year -- is way up, writes Ed Navigator's Tim Daly. Twenty-five percent of...

“You’ll have a kid who does nothing for the whole semester, and then last two weeks of May or June, they’ll do a couple assignments and...

There are three terrifying things about the long-term federal test data on 13-year-olds' achievement, writes Vladimir Kogan, an Ohio...

Schools haven't returned to normal reports Alia Wong for USA Today. An alarming number of students are "missing vast stretches of their...

A quarter-million students who left public schools during the pandemic are missing, according to an analysis of 21 states and the...

No-consequences attendance policies have encouraged students to skip class, teacher Loren Green told the Albany, New York school board....