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 ...

Children of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles are at an educational disadvantage compared to children of Americans who immigrated legally, according to a recent study. Citizenship status of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Nicholas Biddle currently works for a university research centre that currently receives funding from a number of relevant Federal Government departments, including the Department of Education, ...

The gap between disadvantaged children and their peers has seen “virtually no change” in two decades and the coronavirus pandemic has “significantly worsened overall outcomes”, a damning report has ...

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 ...

A landmark Department of Education (DE) scheme to tackle underachievement did not discriminate against Catholics, a judge has ruled. Mr Justice Humphreys dismissed a legal challenge to the methods ...

There are serious inequalities across Britain, and across ethnic and socioeconomic classes, which indicate that this is not a fair society but one which systematically disadvantages children from ...