Abstract: Inefficiencies, cumbersome processes, and a significant risk of errors, delays, and misuse often plague conventional methods for tracking student attendance. To address these challenges, ...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on Tuesday released attendance data of teachers and administrative staff of the state’s school districts for the 2024-2025 school year. This ...

The Press investigation of dozens of school files revealed they were misleading and possibly altered to falsely indicate more students were in school than actually were. At least two sources with ...

Bodycam footage shows the moment a student was handcuffed and searched by armed police after an AI-driven security system flagged his empty Doritos bag as a firearm. Taki Allen, 16, said he had been ...

Armed police handcuffed and searched a student at a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, this week after an AI-driven security system flagged the teen’s empty bag of chips as a possible firearm.

Students in Illinois are still missing more school than they were before the pandemic and, for elementary school students, the number of days absent is impacting their learning even more than it did ...

LSU will be using student attendance from the first three weeks of the semester to affirm their eligibility for financial aid. Students are required to have attended or participated in each of their ...

After a summer spent out of school, it’s time for students to return to the classroom. But for some students, showing up to school is a daily challenge. How are we measuring student attendance in ...

Just days before the start of the fall semester, Newark public school officials announced that attendance in the 2024-25 school year was up and chronic absenteeism down for all grades. Districtwide, ...

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...

Prior research shows attendance is one of the best predictors of class grades and student outcomes, creating a strong argument for faculty to incentivize or require attendance. Attaching grades to ...