The following table provides a ranking score for 24 countries, from best to worst, on how well they’ve confronted five measures of educational disadvantage. Those measures are based on student ...

Students who attend college part time are at a disadvantage relative to their full-time peers, according to a report released on Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of ...

Even with equivalent educational achievement, students from poorer backgrounds have much less of a shot to get into top universities than their privileged peers. “Why are academically gifted students ...

The objective of this study is to examine the correlates of healthy aging in the context of educational disadvantage and the extent to which identified correlates are shared with the wider, more ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research ...

Vol. 40, No. 6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Inequality and education: continuing the debate. A special issue of the "Oxford Review of Education" to mark its 40th anniversary (December 2014), pp. 715-738 (24 pages) ...

Black families have less wealth than white families, and that puts black students at an educational disadvantage, says Amy J. Orr, an assistant professor of sociology at Linfield College. She defines ...

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between social disadvantage and educational pathways for individuals from disadvantaged family backgrounds at each stage of their lives, and ...

Technology has the potential to create opportunities, including within education. Students can learn, collaborate, research, and independently acquire knowledge from the Internet and other ...

Bethan Reece enrolled her daughter Ada in child care when she was four months' pregnant, but it would take two more years before she secured a place. Bethan and Ada live in Alice Springs, one of the ...