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Schools are competing with cell phones. Here's how they think they could win
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An AP analysis of data from 40 states and DC shows school absenteeism got worse in each one except Arkansas from 2018-2022.
Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school. Even fewer actually showed up.