Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees ...

Years after the pandemic hit, chronic absenteeism persists at high levels. The absences take a toll on all students, not just the ones missing.

More than a quarter of primary schoolchildren, and more than a fifth of post-primary students missed at least a month of school days during the 2022/23 school year.

Absenteeism in school districts throughout Florida skyrocketed beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic — and, confounding experts’ predictions and defying educators’ hopes, it hasn’t come back ...

BENZONIA — Administrators at Benzie County Central Schools want parents of students to understand the importance of in-person attendance. Superintendent Amiee Erfouth said daily attendance ...

Fresno Unified School District had only 40 students enrolled in its online eLearn Academy before 2020. Now, its rebranded ...

The effects of the coronavirus-related shutdown linger five years later, as measured in test scores and student engagement, especially among the Golden State's most vulnerable children.

Post-Covid anxiety and poor mental health a ‘key driver in children skipping school’ Children lost an estimated 11.5 million days of learning last autumn term as school absence rates remain ...

High levels of pupil absence in England seen since the COVID-19 pandemic can be linked to a shift in attitudes towards school attendance at the time.

The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, researchers found.

A "post-Covid" effect needs to be reversed to improve attendance in a town's schools, councillors have heard. Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council official Mandie Rowlands said there was a generation ...