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 ...

The objective of this study is to examine the correlates of healthy aging in the context of educational disadvantage and the extent to which identified correlates are shared with the wider, more ...

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 ...

Technology has the potential to create opportunities, including within education. Students can learn, collaborate, research, and independently acquire knowledge from the Internet and other ...

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) ...

Schools with the highest levels of disadvantage are to receive targeted supports under new plans to be announced. The Delivering Equality of Opportunity In Schools (Deis) scheme supports approximately ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 31 (August 3, 2021), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Despite overall improvements in health and living standards in ...

Most students’ paths to higher education are shaped by numbers: grade-point averages, class rankings, and infamously, standardized-test scores. Now students taking the College Board’s SAT will have ...

Employers in China are more likely to call back job applicants who graduated from Chinese colleges than from American colleges. Even job applicants with degrees from very selective U.S. universities ...

When Rob Berlin received his teaching registration, his phone began buzzing with job offers almost immediately. "Because my location … came up on a register, people were watching it and went 'I'm ...