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Being excluded from school can have a life-long impact.
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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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, Charles Sturt University
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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 - Autism and inclusive education, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education, UCL
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Reader in Human Development and Education Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate professor, Stellenbosch University
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Sue Roffey is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL
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Professor of Inclusive Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Reader and Research Director in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of family science and social work, Miami University
