Rosalie Talahongva was an eighth grader when she arrived at the Phoenix Indian School in 1979. The young Hopi girl still remembers what she encountered at what was one of the country's largest ...

An estimated 6.5 million Americans living with dementia are cared for by family members but require frequent hospital visits. Dementia can sneak up on families because its sufferers may be adept at ...

SIR: Where education is not a major provision in a community’s infrastructure, confusion can govern attitudes. It is easy to denigrate and demonize an ethnic or religious category of people when it ...

Poverty, by America is Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond’s follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Where Evicted combined ...

Education has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction The world economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the past four decades. Global GDP per capita ...

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, has attributed the poverty and insecurity plaguing Northern Nigeria to the region’s inadequate education system. Speaking at the ...

One of the obstacles that keeps the poor from rising out of poverty is the tendency to make costly financial decisions—like buying lottery tickets, taking out high interest loans, and failing to ...

Areas of the country where disadvantaged pupils perform worse are more likely to have large populations of poor white children, a report has suggested. The Institute for Government (IfG) think tank ...

Researchers looked at education levels and rates of dementia, but a new study published in JAMA Neurology looks at the quality of a person’s education and their risk of developing the condition.

The Interior Department has launched an investigation into the lasting effects of the more than 350 government-funded Indian boarding schools in the United States. Using Western-style education ...