And they struggle steadily to keep their charges from quitting school, to keep them from joining the unemployed floaters on the street. Within these limitations, slum teachers score remarkable ...

Williams, a standout professor of economics at George Mason University, bluntly averred, “Schools of education represent the academic slums of most any college. American education can benefit from ...

the Montessori movement in the U.S. has grown to 100 private schools (38 of them belonging to her A.M.S.), and the method may be on the verge of filling a big new role in big-city slums.

And all of it costs much less per student. You can find these so-called “slum schools” in Somaliland, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Uganda, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and the list goes on.

The study was conducted under the project "Child Bride to Bookworm (CBB): Reducing School Dropout in Urban Slums in Bangladesh" initiated by Plan International Bangladesh and its local partner Surovi.

Leaders in slum areas have asked government to consider increasing the number of schools in slums to reduce the number of children loitering on the streets of Kampala. Jengo Twaha, the vice ...

For most students in the slum, the school closure feels more like a holiday—a chance to play and have fun all day. Some of them even don’t know why the schools are closed. For 10-year-old ...