The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are about 535,000 children ages 1 to 5 nationwide who have elevated blood levels, which can have an effect on academic achievement. Read Full Post >
Researchers found that a smaller share of students who received free or reduced-price lunches that had to meet higher nutritional standards were overweight than among students who did not eat school lunches. Read Full Post >
One of the earliest effects of a parent's job loss is that children's performance at school declines. Read Full Post >
The new movie, "A Place at the Table," depicts the struggle for food among the impoverished. Read Full Post >
A Duke University study shows that while the level of racial segregation in North Carolina schools has remained steady in recent years, economic gaps have grown. Read Full Post >
In many school districts, more than 90 percent of schools that serve lunch to low-income students now serve breakfast at school, too, new data show. Read Full Post >
America's children and their families are showing greater resilience and support in the face of rising poverty that has now wiped out the historic financial gains of the 1990s, according to an annual study. Read Full Post >
In separate reports, the NAACP and the Annie E. Casey Foundation looked at the broad causes of, and solutions to, America's education problems. Government was part of both. Read Full Post >
A sweeping analysis of student mobility in Ohio has found a number of revolving-door districts, where students perform no better, if not worse, than the economically disadvantaged. Read Full Post >
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