Note that these statistics likely register as higher in cities inhabited significantly by undocumented residents where attaining accurate information delivers challenges. While people attempt to turn ...

Sitting at a blueberry blue table in a Head Start classroom in Pullman, Mich., about an hour south of Grand Rapids, preschool teacher Julie Beck helps a little girl draw a rainbow with crayons. Nearby ...

Amory Gethin, an economist at the World Bank’s development research group, believes that education policy should continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction. In a feature article of the F ...

Low-income children and families would be among the groups hit hardest by Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the bill would be a boon to wealthy Americans, it would scale back resources ...

Theo Bray is in his 12th week of recovery from a near-fatal car accident that left him with multiple fractures in his vertebrae, hip and pelvis. Bray, who has a bachelor's degree, helps support his ...

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. Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this month ...

A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, ...

“To educate children from poverty is complicated,” said Russell Still of Columbia, a member of the state Board of Education who spent several years as a classroom teacher in Detroit. “I learned how ...

For many young Nigerians, the dream of a university education ends not in failure, but in lack of funds. Brilliant students with ...

Arizona Department of Education leaders for weeks denied the department had taken, without notice, tens of thousands of dollars in federal poverty funds from a southern Arizona school district and ...