Being excluded from school can have a life-long impact.
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Education needs to be more aligned with healthy child development, children’s interests, and the importance of relationships for wellbeing.
Disability may place constraints on a family’s ability to take vacations during the school holidays.
Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of classes.
Punishing attendance problems fails to address the issues facing students, from family responsibilities to barriers related to racism or inadequate support for disabilities.
Disengagement from schooling puts students at a greater risk of permanently dropping out of school.
COVID-19 upended families’ morning routines. Getting kids back on schedule and sticking to it will help ease difficult transitions, a child psychologist explains.
A new report says a “culture of passing” led to the graduation scandal at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, but the scandal points to the much larger problem of chronic absenteeism in the US.
Bad weather conditions often force schools to make unplanned closures.
Any new approach to linking welfare payments to attendance must address the flaws of previous trials. It will require the cooperation of schools and the availability of accurate, real-time data.
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Reader in Human Development and Education Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct), Charles Sturt University
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LCC Research Fellow at Telethon Kids Institute; Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Education researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Inclusive Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Reader and Research Director in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University
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