Poverty and Education are Inextricably Linked While the degree of correlation between a family’s income level and children’s performance in school has long been known, there’s been frustratingly ...

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. Published in March 2023. Poverty, by America is Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond’s follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 book, Evicted: ...

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The American talked to Grimes about the challenges of teaching adolescents, how education breaks the cycle of poverty, and how they avoid student and staff burnout in a curriculum where students ...

So the U.S. Department of Education decided the public aid numbers should be multiplied by 1.6 to calculate poverty for the purposes of determining which schools get Title I money.

THE extent of poverty in Guyana is a subject of ongoing discussion. The World Bank reported a poverty rate of 48.4 per cent in 2019, using a threshold of ...

But an education system can save people only when it manages to educate them, and America too often falls short. I had heard Mississippi cited for its progress, but frankly, I was skeptical until ...

Louisiana has been ranked as the worst state in the country for at-risk youth in 2025, according to a new report from ...

Based on official data from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), UNICEF projects that child ...

The index measures both the share of people in poverty and the degree to which they are deprived. The first edition of the ...

He said that the crisis disproportionately affects children, with 72.5% of those aged 0–14 living in poverty, and education levels further exacerbate the divide: 79.5% of Nigerians without ...