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"Head Start is a health and education program for preschoolers from low-income families. The program uses a scoring system developed by U.Va. to measure teacher quality in Head Start's 50,000 classrooms nationwide."

"African-American male students could be the nation's leading lagging indicator. To understand the depths of the nation's educational crisis, there's no better group to keep an eye on when it comes to underperformance."

"Giving kids something to do after school also helps deter them from crime and violence.But in a city with one of the highest child poverty rates in the country, finding affordable after-school programs can be tough, and many students do not have access to them."

"Wee all familiar with the National School Lunch (NSL) program, an entitlement meant to stave off hunger for low-income children so that they receive adequate nutrition during the school day. NSL is viewed simply as an extension of food stamps..."

"Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches."

"Students from Juneau-Douglas High School spent a night in cardboard shanties to raise awareness and money for homeless students in the community."

"The financial struggles of thousands of families in Wood and Adams counties is increasing the stress on school officials, as they try to address achievement gaps between impoverished students and the general student population."

"Community colleges are one of the state's key vehicles for economic mobility and social equity, helping countless low-income students and people of color make the jump into the middle class, according to a new report, 'Pathways out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians...'"

"The motivation has been the South Dakota Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program, or GEAR UP. Its goal is to increase the number of first generation, low-income Native American students who are prepared to enter and succeed in college..."

"Jule Sugarman, a public administrator whose skill at navigating the federal bureaucracy made him a key figure in founding the Head Start early-education program for poor children, died of cancer Nov. 2 at his home in Seattle."

"'It has skyrocketed,' said Karen Barber, director of federal programs. 'This time last year, we had 450 students identified as living in a homeless situation, and we ended the year with 1,375.'"

"The reports put heavy weight on progress that schools make on measures like graduation rates, state tests and credits earned by students... They also give more credit to progress made by schools with a high number of low-income students."