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 ...

Educational equity is increasingly recognized as a crucial dimension of life-course epidemiology and public health, given its profound and far-reaching ...

Plans to introduce a Deis+ scheme targeting the schools working with the highest levels of disadvantage have been welcomed by school principals who campaigned for the measure. However, the group has ...

The Education Act vows to 'equality of access to and participation in education'. Today, we are nowhere near realising that, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year again when hundreds of thousands of Australian students start university for the first time. Commencing students account for about 40% of the more than 1.6 million Australians ...

New research on disadvantage in Australia has found the gap between rich and poor is very wide in Sydney, while much of Queensland struggles with educational disadvantage and regional NSW and Victoria ...