Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income - Southern Spaces
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The Southern Education Foundation's 2015 research bulletin reports that for the first time in over fifty years, a majority of schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools come from low-income families. "A New Majority" documents that in four out of every five states, low-income students comp
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Impact of Classroom Segregation on Student Education
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What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? - The Boston Globe
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California's Economy Pinched by Unemployment - The New York Times
Report reveals growing funding divide between the haves and have-nots across the nation's education system - ABC News
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Education in South Africa - Wikipedia
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10 Major Challenges Facing Public Schools
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In Mississippi, a Broad Effort to Improve Literacy Is Yielding Results
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The Nature Gap - Center for American Progress
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United Nations in South Africa
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How Housing Policies Create Unequal Educational Opportunities: The Case of Queens, New York
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Southern Poverty Law Center: Most Floridians support public schools
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Highly Negative Views of American Politics in 2023
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Teachers in the US are even more segregated than students