Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that when people understand how income inequality creates disparities in health care and education access, they become more ...

Educational inequality in developing countries manifests in disparities in access, quality and outcomes across regions, genders and socioeconomic groups. Barriers such as school fees, inadequate ...

272 million children and youth are out of school globally, up 21 million from last year. AI-powered platforms are narrowing education gaps by providing free and shared study materials along with smart ...

For the first time in history, mathematics achievement scores in the United States dropped - from 241 in 2020 to 234 in 2022. As new research rolls in, the stark realities of the effects of COVID-19 ...

Young people all throughout the country have expressed concern about education inequality, recognizing that access to quality education is not equal for all students. Education inequality in the ...

If education is, in Horace Mann’s words, “the great equalizer,” why hasn’t a substantial increase in spending on education and a sharp rise in college attendance and graduation rates narrowed the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. “Education pays,” says the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

I was dismayed to recently encounter this headline in The New York Times: “Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says.” The Times story highlighted a UNESCO report ...

The following is a Q&A discussion about Jonathan Kozol’s new book, We Shall Not Bow Down Children of Color Under Siege: An Invocation to Resistance, published by Seven Stories Press. 1) You have long ...

In the last few months, Mongolia has experienced intermittent strikes by both teachers and medical workers, demanding a pay raise and the allocation of financial resources from the state budget. The ...

I've been trying to figure out how I missed Paul Tough's The Inequality Machine until now. The book is such a lucid, compelling and tightly argued critique of elite higher ed that you'd think it would ...