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"'I've found over 500 schools in low-income neighborhoods where scores are above the national average,' he said. The lecture was a tutorial on the need to bridge cultural gaps between teachers and their students..."

"The 'summer slide,' as it's known in educational circles, disproportionately affects low-income kids, whose parents often don't have the means to send them to summer camps or the time to organize other stimulating activities."

"It would take 108 classes to make Pre-K available to all students, and cost about $8.1 million in the first year for the additional 64 classes. 'It's leveling the playing field for children of poverty,' Federal Programs Director Phyllis Bartlett said while discussing Pre-K in another context."

"More than half of Metco students, who board buses and trains every morning as early as 6 a.m., are from low-income families. Three-fourths are African-American or Latino."

"To help cope with enrollment increases... the equivalent of 27.8 full-time teachers will be shuffled in from elsewhere in the system. Also cut was spending for a county-funded poverty program at schools where increased federal poverty funds were available this year."

"What started with one act of kindness has blossomed into a faith-based ministry where hundreds of homeless congregate during the day in downtown Newport News."

"Smalls was not alone at Carolina Community Actions, which this week started to help the poor and elderly through its low-income cooling assistance program paid for with federal Health and Human Services dollars."

"They could have made excuses and dropped out of school like thousands of other teens facing adversity. Yet they succeeded, even excelled, despite the odds against them. Poverty. Cultural differences. Stubbornness. The death of a mother."

"But a quality summer learning program can play a role in closing the gap between low-income students and their middle-class peers, according to a new study released today by the RAND Corp."

"The Pittsburgh program, called Summer Dreamers Academy, will tutor more than 5,000 students in math, reading and social skills for five weeks... It also will offer the kind of enrichment activities such as kayaking, judo and dance that many low-income children miss..."

"Females held the majority of degrees in lower-paying fields, but disparities in earnings based on race and gender were evident in nearly every major. Women with chemical-engineering degrees... still earned an average of $20,000 less than men with the same degree."

"It has been an amazing experience and really, really eye-opening. Sheila is really actually making a change by starting with a few families. It doesn't matter if they are born into poverty -- kids are kids."