School attendance rates and chronic absenteeism in Colorado took a slight turn for the worse last school year, adding 3,500 more chronically absent students compared to the year prior. Colorado ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Student attendance in Indiana and Michigan is improving. Unfortunately, there are still a significant number of children who are missing big chunks of the school year. Chronic absenteeism is a local ...

Perfect attendance awards encourage students to come to school, even when they are not feeling well—either mentally or physically. However, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have shifted attitudes, with ...

College football attendance increased in 2023 by a number that's likely equivalent to the crowd attending an average game-day tailgate: 27. It's small growth but a rise nonetheless as the average ...

Through the first few days of the tournament, attendance at Team USA games is outpacing all other games by a factor of nearly ...

When this school year began, Issac Moreno just couldn’t get himself to go. During the pandemic, he’d gotten used to learning from his family’s home in Los Angeles. Then, last fall, he started junior ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct information about the state’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2018-19 school year. School attendance rates and chronic absenteeism in Colorado took a ...