Absenteeism from school is a serious public health issue for mental health professionals,
physicians, and educators. The prevalence of unexcused absences from school exceeds …

Bullying is recognized as a significant problem that negatively impacts school-aged children
worldwide. Although much has been learned about bullying and related physical and mental …

School attendance problems (SAPs) are heterogeneous with respect to etiology and
presentation. The long history of conceptualizing SAPs has led to a vast array of terms and …

Recent policy dialogue suggests that chronic absenteeism is not only underdocumented, but
is also detrimental to the success of students as early as kindergarten. That said, almost no …

Researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and parents have assumed a positive relationship
between school attendance and academic success. And yet, among the vast body of …

Over the past several decades, research has documented strong relationships between
social class and children's cognitive abilities. These initial cognitive differences, which are …

Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse
circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students …

More than 6.5 million children in the United States, approximately 13% of all students, miss
15 or more days of school each year. The rates of chronic absenteeism vary between states …

Researchers and policy makers have questioned the efficacy of family-involvement
interventions. They believe that more studies are needed to compare outcomes of students …

The literature on school absences has focused predominantly on the reasons for student
truancy, or it has assessed only aggregate student absences in their effect on achievement …