Coverage of policy efforts to improve the teaching profession is supported by a grant from the Joyce Foundation. Still, some districts are experimenting with attempts to cut down on the absences.

Report from Raegen Miller analyzes new data and finds patterns of teacher absence that provide insight into possible policy solutions to reduce absence rates. The positions of American Progress, and ...

I read with initial amusement, which grew into anger, your article regarding the federal panel that has been assembled to study the ways teachers are prepared in this country (“Panel Examines Teacher ...

The federal government has begun putting together a regular report on how many students — and how many teachers — are “chronically absent” from school. It turns out teachers get that label more than ...

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STAMFORD -- More than half of Stamford teachers were absent at least 11 days in the 2009-10 academic year, costing Stamford taxpayers $1.9 million in substitute teachers and depriving students of ...