Forty minutes. That’s how long it took Laura* to walk from her home to her high school two blocks away one sunny April morning. Getting to the classroom has been a struggle for students like ...

at Gimba Primary School, Pricila Makeo sits in a class with some empty desks. “I too miss school on some occasions. I could be sick, there may be dangerous wild animals blocking my path ...

The kids in the third-grade class we observed at Phyllis Ruth Miller Elementary go to an A-rated school, a Montessori magnet ...

Nevertheless, by its second year, the school had 20 students. Ms. Hooper found desks in a dumpster at a school in Greenwood, Miss. The laptops were outdated castoffs from a school in West Point ...