Low-Income Students
Student Well-Being & Movement
Most Parents View STEM in After-School as Elementary, Survey Finds
A majority of parents say an important factor in selecting an after-school program for their children is access to quality, hands-on projects in STEM fields.
School Climate & Safety
'Concentrated Disadvantage' Drives Chicago Discipline Disparities, Study Says
Controlling for race, gender, and other factors, Chicago students are more likely to be suspended if they attend schools with high rates of poverty, a new study finds.
Student Achievement
Q&A: Quality Still a Challenge in After-School Programs, Says Top Researcher
Deborah Vandell has stepped down as founding dean of the School of Education at the University of California, to pursue her research into ways of ensuring quality in after-school and summer programs, especially for low-income children.
Equity & Diversity
States Win $28 Million in Federal Grants to Pay for AP Tests
Funding for the U.S. Department of Education program has grown from $20 million a few years ago to $28 million.
Equity & Diversity
Flurry of Bills in Congress Seek to Expand Summer Meals Programs
An effort to give more children access to free and reduced-price meals during the summer is underway in Congress and lawmakers prepare to take up reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.
Equity & Diversity
Three Ways the Feds Hope to Boost Participation in Summer Meal Programs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to see 200 million meals served at participating summer meals sites this year, an increase of 13 million from last year's total.
Student Achievement
Marva Collins, Famed Chicago Educator, Stressed Potential of Low-Income Students
Marva Collins, who died June 24 at age 78, founded a celebrated independent school known for fostering high achievement in children from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago.
Equity & Diversity
Health, Poverty, and Engagement: How States Stack Up on 'Whole Child' Issues
With that in mind, newly updated "Whole Child Snapshots" from ASCD show how states measure in a range of issues like obesity, bullying, and civic engagement.
Student Achievement
How Do We Understand Poverty Without Relying on Federal Free-Meal Statistics?
A new federal guide offers school officials and researchers ways to structure new measures of students' socioeconomic status.
Equity & Diversity
Advocates Tout L.A. Unified Budget That Restricts Spending on School Police
Advocates of restorative justice announced a victory Tuesday, as the Los Angeles Unified School District announced the reallocation of some school-policing funds toward programs meant to improve school climate.
Student Well-Being & Movement
What Do Students Need to Succeed? Guide Helps Educators Navigate the Research
A new report from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research offers a framework for understanding the cognitive and non-cognitive traits students need for success as adults.
Student Achievement
Better Access Crucial to Success of Summer and After-School Programs
Schools and communities need to do a better job of expanding access to after-school and summer learning programs, according to a panel of experts.
School & District Management
Opinion
Suburban Districts Shouldn't Hire Detectives to Keep Students Out
Some suburban districts hire detectives and even take families to court, to keep out students, often low income and students of color, from nearby urban districts. I think this is awful. I found many status quo defenders (and I don't see you as one of them) who believe this is perfectly ok.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Civil Rights and Testing: Response to Haycock and Edelman
In this blog, Marc Tucker responds to two critics of his earlier blog on the question of whether annual testing helps or hurts poor and minority children.