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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. The bed dominates the room, and a crooked “home sweet home” plaque hangs on the wall.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

The Hechinger Report

Girls score 16 percent better than boys in A-Levels, the standardized exams generally required to get into British universities, the British Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reports. For another, girls do better in school. It says that gap, too, is widening. And poor white boys do the worst of all.