One of the soundest achievements of social science research in education, has been to
demonstrate that economic disadvantage hampers educational performance at school. Yet …

For low-income youth in Mexico today, the pressure that the future exerts on the present is
intense. Their fate hangs on what they do today in a far more urgent way than it is likely to at …

Although Mexico has committed itself to the struggle against child labour, it is still a frequent
practice in this country. This article presents an analysis of the labour done by children of …

This article considers the role of work in the socialization of children who grow up in
conditions of extreme poverty. It is based on research among families of seasonal migrant …

This analysis is about the role of poverty in school reform. Data from a number of sources
are used to make five points. First, that poverty in the United States is greater and of longer …

From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new
opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families …

What are the effects of recent public policies for reducing educational inequalities? How do
privatization and other market-based education measures influence schooling in poverty …

In the 1950s and 1960s Mexico experienced what is often referred to as an economic
miracle. Per capita annual growth rates of 3 and 4 percent prevailed, and for many years the …

The chapters in this volume have explored the many and significant ways economic
inequality and social class have impacts on education. Bruce Biddle sets the context for the …

However, aside from occasional news breaks like this one, rural poverty–and all it suggests
about the social and moral ecology of the nation–remains rclatively invisibile." In this regard …