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7 ways to rethink school/family partnerships
The current toolbox for growing the school/family partnership is broken. It is a system built on old communication methods, inequitable access, and ineffective gatherings. This leaves the support a…
Why Do Low-Income Kids Suffer So Much Summer Learning Loss?
Call it summer learning loss, summer slide or brain drain.<br>The loss of critical reading and math skills among children during the summer months is particularly pronounced among low-income kids, who lose an average of two to three months of academic achievement in reading and math each summer.
Why It Might Be Time to Treat Child Poverty Like a Medical Condition
New research reveals that kids growing up in low-income homes have less-developed brains than their wealthier peers.
How Schools Can Help Break the Cycle of Poverty: A Whole Child Approach
More than 16 million children in the United States-nearly one out of four-live below the federal poverty level with their families earning less than $23,550 annually. These low-income households face many challenges, from lacking economic resources, to little or no access to health and wellness care. Children raised in poverty often have to go without...
Why are many students with ‘A’ averages being barred from college-level classes?
If community colleges are going to be the new pathway to the middle class, they have a lot of work to do, according to a new study. They offer degrees that can help low-income and first-generation students gain a foothold in an increasingly competitive job market, yet for years community college graduation rates have remained …
How Will the New Pell Grant Formula Affect Students?
Pell simplification policies could improve educational outcomes for students from low-income families
Study examines why students choose for-profit education
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit schools, and they tend to be older, minority students from low-income families with low levels of educational attainment.
Let’s solve the learning crisis together
Researchers in low-income countries want more focus on basic literacy and numeracy
Educators learn struggles of poverty
Red Clay educators learned about the challenges of living in poverty through a simulation exercise based on real life cases of low-income families.
How Financial Literacy Classes Are Putting Students on the College Track
Financial literacy classes can help low-income kids see why they need the salary boost that comes from staying in school.
What the rising graduation rate hides
Black and Hispanic students have made big gains in high school graduation rates, but they still lag behind. So do low-income students.
Blog: Why we need educational choice
Educational choice programs across the country have successfully given students from low-income families, many of whom are minorities, the opportunity to attend the quality school of their choice. These programs have extended life changing options to children, who otherwise would never have been able to attend a school that suits their individual needs. As Hispanic …
How to Get More Smart Low-Income Students to Elite Colleges
Some see a need for this since even the smartest low-income students make up just 3 percent of elite schools.
How America's public schools keep kids in poverty
Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resource...
The importance of asking hard questions about what students learn in school
Uneven, scattered curriculum isn’t just boring or confusing — it can widen the gaps between students from affluent backgrounds and their peers from low-income families.
Why VR matters, especially in rural schools
All children benefit from new experiences which expand their mental map of the world, but the need is especially acute for children from low-income families.
How Can Private Schools Contribute To the Public Good?
A public-private partnership aims to prevent the "summer slide" by giving low-income neighborhood kids a private school experience over the summer.
Working their way through ... high school?
In an unusual arrangement, low-income students work to help pay tuition. But it's not just about the money
How the college admissions system is rigged against low-income students
Some wealthy parents are paying up to $400 an hour for SAT and ACT tutoring. Where does this leave low-income students in the college admissions process?
Educators learn early results of Gates initiative to improve student outcomes
Helping students of color and low income students to graduate and succeed in college and beyond requires a new strategy that is getting major funding from the Gates Foundation.
Tackling Achievement Gaps From Summer Learning Loss
A well-designed summer program can help low-income students read and do math better. In fact, attending a summer program regularly for as little as five weeks for two years in a row could result in about a quarter of a year’s gain in both reading and math for students from low-income families. That is the rather surprising finding of a …
