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"Billions of dollars and the education of millions of low-income students are on the line for generations to come. The goal of both is the same: deploy revenues in a manner that targets the most needy students who are lagging behind in test scores and are at greater risk of dropping out."

"The change in student classification, at least for now, would affect only how results are reported on a key series of national skills tests known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But it could have a big effect on education debates, potentially increasing the number of students designated as "low-income" and reframing the debate on poverty's effects in America."

"Perhaps we should begin looking more closely at two different groups of poor children. Consider research to identify the most meaningful differences between the households of (a) poor kids who fail academically and (b) poor kids who succeed academically."

"The University of Virginia remains one of the nation's least socioeconomically diverse public schools, according to a new report that also commends the University of Richmond for serving low-income students."

"Now, the New America Foundation's Stephen Burd is out with a bracing report arguing that schools are actively trying to recruit high-income students with merit aid and other enticements, and making it harder and harder for low-income students to attend in the process. The share of high-income students receiving aid be it federal, state, or institutional went from only 13 percent in 1995-96 to 18 percent in 2007-08."

"Senate budget writers have also included $26 million in the state budget to expand full-day, 4-year-old kindergarten for children living in poverty."

"Indeed, not since President Johnson's War on Poverty has our nation truly committed to eliminating structural economic inequality. Many of our state-based education and school-funding policies exacerbate tax-based inequities, creating a class-based schooling system in which schools with the fewest resources are often concentrated in communities of color or those with high rates of poverty."

"Understanding the mysteries of the Web can lift a veil dividing generations, Kamber said. What happens when someone gets an iPad in their hands I felt like things were passing me by, and now I feel like I'm part of it.'' In the District, the program selected low-income seniors at high risk of being disconnected from friends and family."

"The report, Working Hard, Left Behind, found that the state has the largest number of adults without a high school diploma or equivalent and ranks last among states in the percentage of low-income working families in which neither parent has a college education."

"A new report released Wednesday cautions that the lack of higher education among California's low-income families could further hurt the state's economy over the next decade."

"With attention diverted to the failed gun control effort, comprehensive immigration reform and sequester politics, Obama's universal preschool program hasn't received the full weight of a White House push since he introduced it during the State of the Union address and traveled to suburban Atlanta to tout it two days later. "

"The N.C. House voted Tuesday to lower income thresholds for the state's pre-kindergarten program, limiting free enrollment to North Carolina's poorest families. The new cutoff for would be right at the federal poverty line in most cases."