Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Park Middle School teacher Francine Hicks wastes no time getting her 8th grade students to work on a recent Monday morning. But ...

Students in Massachusetts public schools are returning to classrooms after an alarming surge in chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic, recently-published state figures from the current ...

In the landscape of K-12 education, attendance has long been viewed as a logistical issue–a checkbox to be marked, a statistic to be tracked. But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy ...

Teacher Francine Hicks marks the attendance chart displayed in her eighth-grade English and History classroom at Park Middle School in Kennewick. Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com Student ...