LOS ANGELES - Court is now in session for the case of People vs. Smith. The jury is sworn in, and lawyers begin delivering their statements. The over-sized coats and fake ties, a sign that the ...

A first-grader eats alone behind a screen as his punishment for being tardy more than four times this school year. His grandmother, Laura Lucas Hoover, was outraged and posted the image on Facebook.

Hours of small-group instruction lead to the kind of background noise that interferes with learning. It’s hard to concentrate when there’s lots of talking in the background. That’s a problem for ...

Karen Fields had set out to be an elementary teacher, but when she got out of her post-baccalaureate credentialing program at Temple University, in 2012, and started attending teacher-recruiting fairs ...

Margy Salguera is a community school manager at Emerson Elementary. Part of her job is conveying to families how important school attendance is and then doing what she can to remove any hurdles that ...

Missing lots of school between kindergarten and eighth grade may have consequences when kids grow up, a new study suggests. When they reached their early 20s, frequent absentees were less likely to ...