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"Most often that means low-income children. Their low scores do not reflect an inability to learn, but reflect instead how the burdens and lack of opportunity for those living in poverty inevitably impede educational progress."

"Of course, with diversity no longer in the equation, some neighborhood schools would have enrollments made up mostly of kids from lower-income families. Such schools are places where academic success becomes even more elusive for students dealing with the challenges of poverty."

"The percentage of students in poverty had increased to 92.4 the highest rate of any school not only in the school district but in Crawford County."

"During a one-hour conversation, Saunders made it clear that he rejects the core of the educational world view held by Rhee and her successor, interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson, who have argued that the disadvantages produced by poverty, crime and family dysfunction can no longer be excuses for failing to raise academic achievement."

"J.S. Clark Elementary School has been recognized for the past two years as a high-performing high-poverty school in Louisiana. Now, the school is receiving national recognition for reducing the differences in achievement between its students."

"The school system is 88 percent black (compared with the city's 63 percent black population), and 84 percent of students are on free or reduced-price meals, a measure of poverty."

"'I do not want to see all those high-poverty schools created and no diversity at all in the rim schools,' said Morrison, referring to schools between downtown and outer suburbia. 'It's going back to resegregation, and it's very intentional in my opinion.'"

"The program, launched last summer, increases digital literacy among low-income youth, preparing them for jobs in information and broadband technology."

"Boundary lines may define district attendance zones, but they don't divide the haves and have nots."

"The nation's high school graduation rate, which declined in the latter part of the 20th century, may have hit bottom and begun to rise, according to a report to be issued Tuesday by a nonprofit group founded by former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell."

"Minority students and students from low-income families are significantly less likely than others to be enrolled in eighth-grade algebra, a Kansas City Star analysis of Missouri test records shows"

"And nearly all high-poverty urban districts have graduation rates that lag behind the national average."