Articles filed under Generations at Risk
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Link between poverty, test scores continuesNov 1, 2016 6:35 PM - An analysis of 2016 PARCC results demonstrates the affect of income on students' test scores.
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Challenged schools like East Aurora find a payoff in innovation
May 24, 2016 5:29 AM - School districts in poverty-stricken areas have discovered that there is a benefit to thinking outside the box. There's no magic bullet to lead students out of poverty, but there may be different ways to engage them -- and keep them in school -- as East Aurora High and other poor schools are finding. -
Two students, one dream: Graduation not a sure thing at schools like East Aurora
May 23, 2016 9:31 AM - Language barriers, lack of supplies, a dearth of role models. No matter how motivated, students who come from poor families have a pockmarked road to high school graduation. Meet Cynthia Ramos and Angel Gutierrez, two East Aurora High School seniors working tirelessly for just such a reward. -
How the odds are stacked against East Aurora students
May 23, 2016 3:10 PM - Too many students on the east side of Aurora face a bleak future because of poverty - their own and that of their school district, East Aurora Unit District 131. In another chapter of our ongoing Generations at Risk series, we examine how difficult getting an education can be for the very poor. -
Editorial: Future of education in the suburbs must embrace those at-risk
Dec 29, 2015 11:07 AM - One of the things we learned about schools in 2015 is just how much poverty is an accurate indicator of student academic performance. When we tie that to the increased number of suburban students living in poverty, now we see more clearly the challenges facing Illinois in 2016 and beyond. In the Daily Herald's groundbreaking series, "Generations at risk: Our promise to our kids," something most of us intuitively suspected all along -- that children in poverty do not perform academically as well as children from middle- or high-income families -- became a data-driven fact. Using 10 years' worth of Illinois report card data, reorganized by percentages of low-income students, the correlation between poverty and academic performance was shown as unmistakable. The more poor children in a school, the worse that school performs on standardized tests. Period. -
Editorial: Schools can't get sidetracked by PARCC flawsDec 12, 2015 2:00 PM - A Daily Herald editorial says the debate over PARCC should not obscure the central point from this year's school report cards that academic performance needs to be improved. Generations of students, the editorial says, are at risk.
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Poor suburban students struggle even more on PARCCDec 10, 2015 5:23 PM - Poor students in the suburbs struggled even more on a new state standardized test. Elementary schools with more than 90 percent low-income students scored the worst, with an average 15.6 percent meeting or exceeding standards, according to just-released data.
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Editorial: Internet initiative a step to boost students in need
Sep 2, 2015 2:49 PM - A Daily Herald editorial applauds a Gurnee-area school initiative to help provide Internet access to children of families in need. -
Editorial: For Generations at Risk, 'iTunes U' offers education equality
Aug 20, 2015 6:29 PM - A Daily Herald editorial says with the launch of Vision 20/20's new 21st Century Learning Center on iTunes U, all students, regardless of income status, have access to the same material. -
Editorial: The will needed for our schools to meet Our Promise to Our Kids
Jun 26, 2015 6:57 AM - A Daily Herald editorial says our series of reports emphasizes that there is no single key to addressing the challenges of educating low-income students, other than an overriding will to implement all the strategies available.
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