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When High School–and Childhood–Is Cut Short in America
With a child poverty rate of 35%, 1 in 3 kids are growing up impoverished ... barrier that COVID-19 would present to students across America. Nearly 94% of America’s schools were forced to close their ...
‘One in 10 parents in poverty say their child has been bullied for being poor’
One in 10 parents living in poverty told how their child had been bullied as a result, according to a survey said to show the ...
Think you can survive at the poverty level? These students saw what it was like
Over 100 middle and high school students from across New Jersey came to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison on Tuesday ...
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In Rural America, the Silence of Poverty is Deafening
The children enrolled in our Early Steps to School Success program are among the most vulnerable in their communities, facing risk factors associated with low education achievement, such as poverty, ...
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Why America hates its children
and US newborns are more likely to grow up in poverty. Millions of children attend public schools that are literally falling apart. Children who are neglected — a loose term inextricably tied to ...
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Albuquerque Public Schools raises school poverty threshold for funding allocation
Albuquerque Public Schools is changing how it allocates federal funds designed to help ensure an equitable education for ...
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Poverty, child labour and violence push boys out of school, says Unesco
This is particularly acute in North America ... violence and bullying at school, which disproportionately affects them. “A primary driver is poverty and the need to work. Girls also drop ...