Government agencies, research entities, and social service organizations are excellent resources for data related to low-income and poverty, and with related social indicators. Educators who use these resources will be better able to understand the needs of the students and families they serve.
This snapshot shares the latest data — for the nation and each state — on children growing up in high-poverty areas. It also singles out two important factors, geographic location
A Stanford study finds that racial segregation matters because black and Hispanic students are concentrated in high poverty schools.
As a component of the 2015 NAEP assessment, teachers and students answered survey questions about classroom instruction—what content teachers covered and what activities they did. This report examines trends in
One excuse that educators have long offered to explain poor reading performance is poverty. In Bethlehem, a small city in Eastern Pennsylvania that was once a booming steel town, there
Paul von Hippel, of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, said he and colleagues were unable to prove results from a
For students to move out of poverty, they need money, preschool and desegregation, says Rucker Johnson, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley. In this Q&A, Johnson says
Stanford scholars disagree about academic gaps between rich and poor students.
The College Board will roll out a new initiative that applies an adversity score to SAT exam results, starting this fall, following a successful beta test with 50 institutions. The
An analysis of federal data shows that students who are white, Asian or from a higher socioeconomic background are more likely to perform better academically, compared with black, Latino or
An analysis shows low-income students at public four-year colleges and universities have benefited more from institutional financial aid than their wealthier peers over the past 10 years. Researchers say that
