"I can remember collecting cans with my mother from the age of ten. We would dig through our apartment's dumpster for ...

Poor preschoolers get fewer chances than wealthier children to bring their prized personal possessions to school. That’s what I found in my two-year comparative ethnographic study of two preschools in ...

A few years ago, Eric Lutz got a call from a distraught client about a talk she'd had with her daughter's kindergarten teacher. It seems the kids had been discussing their February break vacations, ...

It's July, which means that across the country teenagers are flipping burgers, scooping ice cream and mowing lawns to save up money for school clothes, movie tickets and -- oh, right -- college ...

Arizona taxpayers are funding $20 million in extracurricular activities like swimming, dance, and piano lessons through the state's universal school voucher program. The program, intended to help poor ...

Money buys you more than just comfort. There are millions of double standards between wealthy and poor individuals in our culture, even for things as subtle as "deservingness," like a study from ...

Kathy Hoffman was right. Arizona is intentionally defunding public school education while shifting funds to private schools. (“Sound the alarm: Arizona is intentionally neglecting public schools,” ...