Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...

The number of people, particularly students in U.S. schools, who were born in Africa increased significantly over the past decade. The 2010 U.S. Census report puts the African immigrant population in the U.S. at 2.1 million people. The largest foreign born African populations were from East...