Inconsistent absence involves irregular and unpredictable interactions – a dad who promises to show up on Tuesday but doesn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine being a student in an elementary school where one in three kids in your classroom is missing nearly a month of school ...

Students are missing a lot of classes. Chronic absenteeism, when a student misses at least 10 percent of the school year — which includes missing school for any reason, and not just unexcused absences ...

When you run a small business, you don't have many employees, and sometimes one employee makes up an entire department. When a key employee is absent -- especially if it is a prolonged absence -- it ...

Report from Raegen Miller analyzes new data and finds patterns of teacher absence that provide insight into possible policy solutions to reduce absence rates. The positions of American Progress, and ...