It began in 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic: an effort, backed by federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, to get Connecticut students back in school amid a spike in chronic ...

South Bend schools saw significant increases in student attendance and decreases in truancy during the 2025-26 school year. Officials say the current manual system for tracking attendance is not ...

A Grade 11 student interested in data analytics and technology developed an Edge AI-powered attendance system in four weeks after identifying a manual attendance-tracking process at a technology ...

Palm Springs Unified School District is launching a new attendance communication system that will replace automated absence phone calls with text messages, giving parents a quicker way to respond ...

Agefield High: Rock the School — the indie open-world high school game that had positioned itself as the Bully successor Rockstar never built — launched on Steam today, August 12, at 12:00 PM ET, and ...

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history. By Stacy Cowley More than 170,000 federal student loan ...

Every mainstream state school in England will be given their own target to improve pupil attendance, the government has confirmed. Schools will also be encouraged to offer more clubs and activities on ...

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A student killed his grandparents before opening fire at his high school and shooting himself, the authorities said. The episode revived a debate about gun laws. By Muktita Suhartono and Max Kim ...

The St. Louis Cardinals have been a much better team than expected in 2026. After trading Brendan Donovan, Sonny Gray, Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras, the Cardinals were picked by many to finish ...

Federal borrowing limits for college have been reduced, forcing more borrowers to turn to private student loans to bridge the financing gap. But most college students have a thin or nonexistent credit ...

If you've maxed out on federal financial aid, private student loans can close the gap for educational expenses, including tuition, housing, books and computers. Available from traditional banks, ...