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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

School districts with high levels of poverty were also more than twice as ... that we have in communities where people look like us.” ...

Oregon has more accurate datasets. But statute requires that the funding formula use on child poverty estimates the U.S.

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." ...

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 ... and possible solutions And if America keeps underfunding public schools, the impact could last generations, said Mary Kusler, the National ...