poverty

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

social-emotional learning curricula

A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

Concern about the quality of social-emotional programs is rising — but one Virginia school sees academic success by focusing on students’ emotional wellbeing   

Early Education

by  Caroline Preston  – October 24, 2019

Latino students

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

Latinos have some of the lowest education levels in the country, but poverty and immigration fears aren’t holding back some students and schools trying to break the cycle

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

Map to the Middle Class

The story of the future of work in America is one of deepening economic polarization. Good jobs are disappearing for people with only a high-school diploma, while wage and employment gains increasingly accrue to people with higher education.
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

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

Latino students

Desde el campo: En un condado de Carolina del Norte donde pocos padres latinos tienen diplomas, sus hijos van en busca de una educación universitaria

Los latinos tienen algunos de los más bajos niveles educacionales del país, pero el temor a la pobreza y a los problemas de inmigración no son un impedimento para alumnos y escuelas que tratan de romper el ciclo

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

The secret to a successful Head Start program

Report identifies key practices that lead to academic success for Head Start grads

Early Education

by  Jackie Mader  – October 17, 2019

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Sci Academy

Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

In 2012, almost all of Sci Academy’s seniors were accepted at college; seven years later, 65 percent had dropped out

Higher Education

by  Casey Parks  – September 30, 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

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

In rural parts of the South, school choice has long been linked to private segregation academies opened for white families fleeing desegregation and busing. Mississippi’s first rural charter school challenges that legacy, but threatens the struggling traditional public schools most black children still attend

Mississippi

by  Danielle Dreilinger  – September 19, 2019

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