achievement gap

child care deserts

Wealthy cities can afford to expand pre-K: What about everyone else?

In struggling Rust Belt cities, child care deserts threaten educational progress

Early Education

by Megan Conn  – November 16, 2019

“Canyon Dreams”

COLUMN: How one Navajo Nation high school is trying to help students see a future that includes college

In a new book on "rez ball," columnist Michael Powell explores the lives of Navajo high schoolers on and off the court

Divided We Learn

by  Liz Willen  – November 6, 2019

math and reading scores

COLUMN: As Republicans stress political fiction over facts, students’ math and reading scores fall

GOP remedy for the decline? More of the policies that may have prompted it 

Race and Equity

by  Andre Perry  – November 6, 2019

Mississippi

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests. A legacy of racism and segregation are among the roadblocks that keep the children of Mississippi from reaching their full potential.

U.S. education achievement slides backwards

Substantial decrease in reading scores among the nation's eighth graders

K-12

by  Jill Barshay  – October 30, 2019

TOPS

How Louisiana’s richest students go to college on the backs of the poor

The state’s TOPS scholarship program and state budget formulas handicap less-advantaged students and colleges, and it’s a national trend

Higher Education

by Emmanuel Felton  – October 30, 2019

COLUMN: Elizabeth Warren shows she understands education in ways charter advocates did not

Linking housing and education gets at the root of the problem in our education system

Race and Equity

by  Andre Perry  – October 28, 2019

high school diploma

Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

In a Kentucky county where coal once reigned, a principal tries to map a future for students that won’t take them away from home

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

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Avoyelles Parish

Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

In a parish with one of the lowest rates of black high school graduates in the nation, a community tries to raise graduation rates

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

racial segregation

COLUMN: An analysis of achievement gaps in every school in America shows that poverty is the biggest hurdle

A Stanford study finds that racial segregation matters because black and Hispanic students are concentrated in high poverty schools

Columnists

by  Jill Barshay  – September 23, 2019

College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

Eight years in, a program that helps low-income students stay on track to college is spreading — and showing results

Guidance Gap

by  Sarah Gonser  – August 30, 2019

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