For over a year, I thought I was learning to live alone. My wife, Fran, had died after 48 years of marriage and I was, for the first time in all those years, alone. I ate on the coffee table in the ...

“What do dads do on Tuesdays?” This wasn’t a rhetorical question when I posed it to my wife as our daughter’s birth ...

What do deadbeat dads, estranged or dead relatives, and birth parents in closed adoptions have in common? What they have in common is the power of absence. That's when what isn't there is what ...

Concern over student attendance has intensified since the pandemic, when chronic absenteeism rose sharply and has now only partially receded. Using daily attendance records covering all students in ...

Frequent missed school days do more than harm students academically; they also damage teachers’ perceptions of chronically absent students. And teachers’ tendency to view absent students less ...

Perfect attendance awards encourage students to come to school, even when they are not feeling well—either mentally or physically. However, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have shifted attitudes, with ...