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

Red flags have been cast over worsening school attendance rates in regional Australia, as a landmark report warns around 15 ...

Across much of Europe, the engines of economic growth are sputtering. In its latest global outlook, the International ...

In a statement, an HHS spokesperson said, "The Secretary has no intention of restricting access to vaccines, but to ensure ...

A new academic year is still weeks away, but Indiana educators are already working to implement a slate of new laws passed during the 2025 legislative session — including changes to classroom ...

A small Ohio district uses a four-day school week to recruit and retain teachers, while improving their work-life balance.

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked high absenteeism in public schools statewide, and five years later thousands of students miss weeks of school each year. Nearly a third of students locally and statewi… ...

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 ...

School leaders report rising emotional distress and term-time holidays worsening absenteeism as post-covid anxiety disrupts primary education ...

The data shows that more than 11% of school days in post-primary schools were lost to student absences in the 2022/23 school year.

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 ...