New truancy strategy in spotlight
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The state of the anti-truancy strategy in England will be under review as latest figures are published.
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Media & professional: Rising numbers of rowdy students are annoying adult passengers, distracting drivers and scaring younger children. Whose job is it to control them? Polly Curtis finds out.
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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Truancy in England's secondary schools dipped last autumn then rose again, with many days lost to holidays.
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Colleges are increasing efforts to find vulnerable students and to get them into treatment, sometimes forcing them to leave temporarily.
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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Absent parents who fail to make maintenance payments could have their passports confiscated under plans.
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Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.
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Parents face fines of up to Â£1,000 if they fail to keep children who have been excluded from school indoors.
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There has been a leap in truancy figures for secondary pupils in England, despite a big campaign to clamp down on the problem.
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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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Schools are given new guidance aimed at stopping pupils using mobile phones and the internet to bully others.
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The more overweight a child, the more likely he or she is to be absent from school, a new report suggests.
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By Gregory Ramey Cox News Service  DAYTON, Ohio -- Many of our children have just started a new school year, and parents are trying to figure out how to help their students be academically successful.
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LONDON - Just who do you want seeing your photos on Facebook, one of the fastest-rising of the worldÃÂÃÂs new social networking websites? If youÃÂÃÂre a student celebrating the end of exams with traditional end-of-term high-jinks, the answer just might not include your college disciplinary committee.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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Truancy in English schools remains stubbornly high even though nearly Â£900m has been spent on the problem.