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Why student absences aren't the real problem in America's 'attendance crisis'

  • Written by Jaymes Pyne, Quantitative Research Associate, Stanford University
Why student absences aren't the real problem in America's 'attendance crisis'Economic hardships, lack of transportation and family crises can keep kids out of school.Fertnig/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year and are considered chronically absent. Education officials have lamented that all this missed instruction has for years constituted an attendance...

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