Poverty is likely the root cause of many of the educational deficiencies noted among students in Upper Cumberland classrooms.

Persistently failing schools should be slammed shut, and students should be offered the chance to attend another school ...

McCormick responded with the head-spinning suggestion that the country’s child labor laws are too restrictive and that plenty ...

New York isn’t just squandering money on its poor public schools, it’s squandering kids’ lives — but a plan in Congress could ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self ...

A new working paper from Dartmouth College researchers provides more evidence that ditching the SAT hurts disadvantaged ...

The combination of poorly developed social and cognitive skills during childhood is linked to poor exam results by the age of 16, with those for whom these issues persist throughout their childhood ...

children and their families are highly affected by the lack of safety and resources, such as access to day care, quality education and stable jobs, in poor neighborhoods," Kim said. "But once ...