Rahm Emanuel, who served as chief of staff to President Barack Obama, wrote in The Post that the country is not sufficiently ...

There’s no more fundamental task for a school than teaching kids to read. This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get ...

"It affects poor districts or those that have ... and possible solutions And if America keeps underfunding public schools, the impact could last generations, said Mary Kusler, the National ...

Public schools in America are becoming testing grounds for a tenuous theory: that poverty can be avoided by making three choices in the right order. This wave of education policy largely ...

Astonishingly, workers with a high school diploma made 2.7 percent less ... Many writers have depicted America’s poor as unseen, shadowed and forgotten people: as “other” or “invisible.” ...

Meanwhile, residents in deeply disadvantaged areas in the South still have unequal school ... way we think America ought to, like they send tons of kids to college. A kid born poor has the same ...

Only 43% of high-poverty schools reported being fully staffed compared ... "What will that mean for their lives, their earning power, or for us as a country when we are not prepared to compete." ...

Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to ... spent so far and the plans they have for what is left. Schools serving high-poverty areas received much more aid money per student.

Low-poverty, medium-poverty and high-poverty schools are based on the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics ...

One in ten schools in poor areas do not offer physics A-Level due to teacher shortages, amid warnings of ‘deepening inequality for a generation’. New research from the Teach First charity ...

“It affects poor districts or those that have ... The consequences of inaction … and possible solutions And if America keeps underfunding public schools, the impact could last generations ...