PROBABLY SOMEWHERE BETTER THAN THEY’D BEEN: Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go? “An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data.”