It's a team effort to understand the wave of poverty that experts say is affecting our kids in the classroom. Hundreds of educators, and business and community officials gathered today to make sure ...

Nov. 8—Owensboro Public Schools district leaders are participating in monthly trainings centered around poverty through March with the first one being held Monday. The district is using lessons ...

More than 70 people who attended a public forum Thursday in Rochester now know about the hidden rules of poverty, middle class and wealth that Ruby K. Payne describes in her book, "A Framework for ...

Around 60 teachers and administrators from local schools came together Monday in Cape Girardeau to gain skills and strategies for successfully educating children living in poverty. Nationally known ...

CHICAGO -- Teachers in low-income school districts often get specialized training about the culture of poverty in order to better understand their students' lives and take those challenges into ...

The recent economic downturn has seen unemployment rates rise and a dynamic increase in the number of working poor and the use of emergency food pantries. Today more than 32.9 million Americans live ...