Low-income districts find ways to help students make music. Though wealth gaps remain, more American kids at all income levels get music in school now than 20 years ago.Produced by Oregon Public BroadcastingReporters: Elizabeth Miller - OPB
The students who are disappearing from college campuses the fastest are those from the middle-class, not low-income, families. The share of those from the middle has fallen at four-year institutions, while the share of students from the lowest-
How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change. By Robbie Feinberg
The first black high school in New Orleans, McDonogh 35, was a source of pride, until the chartering of the city’s schools after Hurricane Katrina contributed to its academic collapse. Now, the school board hopes turning it over to a charter or