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"Those recommendations tie in well with another recent report, by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, that suggested ways to get high-achieving, low-income students to attend elite schools that might serve them better; research by Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale found that the economic benefit of selective schools is greatest for poor students. The work follows up on research Hoxby and Christopher Avery did showing that elite colleges frequently miss on high-achieving, low-income students."

"A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Census Bureau's poverty estimates for seniors is frightening. Nationally, 9 percent of people 65 and older live in poverty. But when the poverty measure adds in other supplemental information, such as out-of-pocket medical costs or the high costs of housing, 15 percent of seniors are living in poverty."

"Higher education today, the report says, is stratified between four-year colleges with high graduation rates that serve largely affluent students and community colleges with often dismal graduation rates that serve mostly low-income students."

"For the last 10 years, the College Success FoundationTacoma a public-private organization has assisted promising low-income students by providing them with the mentoring and counseling they need to negotiate the college application process. It also helps them locate scholarships, and then continues mentoring and counseling them until they've completed their college degree. Careful research has documented its success in getting disadvantaged students into and out of college."

"A report released yesterday by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation examined poverty among seniors for 2009 through 2011 as lawmakers consider changes to government programs that many rely on, including Social Security, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Cuts in services or added out-of-pocket expenses would really hurt folks who are barely getting by now,' said Diana Kubovcik, clinical services director for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging."

"The share of seniors living in poverty at least doubles in 12 states under the U.S. Census Bureau's supplemental' poverty measure, according to an analysis released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation."

"The report by the New America Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., analyzed U.S. Education Department data showing the net price' the amount students pay after grants and scholarships have been exhausted for low-income students at thousands of colleges nationwide for the 2010-11 school year."

"In L.A. Unified, schools with as few as 40% low-income students had been receiving dollars, although at a lower funding level. Last year, with relatively little notice, L.A. Unified raised the minimum to 50%, which added to shortfalls at schools already enduring recession-related cuts. LACES was one such campus, with 46% low-income students last year."

"[A] new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that the SPM poverty rate for senior citizens is actually higher than the official rate: 15 percent vs. 9 percent. And when you include people living within 200 percent of the poverty line, the picture under SPM looks even worse."

"The Louisiana voucher law gives up most accountability for school finances or student achievement when it hands over the taxpayers' check. The schools that take fewer than 40 voucher students are not even be required to show any data for their students' learning. These schools are not required to hire certified teachers or teach the skills students need for higher education and the workplace in the 21st century."

"Rios and his neighbors in the low-income senior housing where he lives on Wilmington's west side are one segment of the growing population of older adults in the First State, where nearly a third of residents are projected to be 60 or older by 2030. Delaware is grappling with how to provide needed services for this surge of residents, many of whom wish to stay in their communities."

"Many low-income families look to their children to assist with the family business or otherwise contribute to the family's income. They see the short-term need for money to support the family and not the long-term benefits of education. This is a crisis that has a solution. At Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, our 2020 goal is to have 90 percent of the children in our clubs graduate on time by providing valuable out-of-school programs."