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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of primary school places are going spare across ... in demand for primary places. The spread of empty miniature desk seats isn’t evenly spread across the country though.

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 The laptops were outdated castoffs from a school in West Point ...