Poor teens 'lag two years behind'
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The gap in achievement between poor children and their peers widens at every stage of schooling, a report says.
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Uncertainty over funding and schools'  attitudes are limiting vocational courses for teenagers, Ofsted says.
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Fewer councils help poorer families to pay for children's school uniforms, a charity says.
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Government efforts to tackle child poverty are failing to help poor parents who work, a think tank says.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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There's hope for the next generation when teens begin investing their money.
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A Tory report on tackling poverty warns about the emergence of a growing underclass in Britain.
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White pupils from poor homes are most likely to persistently underachieve, a study says.
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Nearly half of disadvantaged youngsters started drinking before the age of 13, a survey finds.
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Streeters are getting a little less than they did in the past.
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Pupils have made improvements in maths but there has been little progress in writing, official figures show.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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Children in Britain are among the most lazy in the world, according to a report.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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More than half of 16 and 17-year-olds who left care in the last year did not achieve any Standard Grade level qualifications, it emerges.
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By MAYA KREMEN and DAVE SHEINGOLD, STAFF WRITERS  Wealthy North Jersey high schools are buying computers at a frantic pace, leaving poorer schools further behind with each passing year, new data show.
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Poorer children are not more likely to take up a school place allocated through a  lottery, researchers say.