It has been over five years since the US shut down for COVID, and in many ways, the country has moved past the pandemic. For US schools, however, the pandemic’s toll has not passed so quickly. Student ...

It was Dec. 16 and the student, a sixth-grader, had already missed 20 days of school due to unexcused absences.

Almost a third of primary schools have seen a sharp rise in the number of pupils absent for four weeks or more in the wake of ...