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"The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation opened a new college scholarship for high-achieving, lower-income high school seniors who seek to attend the country's best four-year colleges and universities. In what is expected to be an extremely competitive scholarship, as many as 40 recipients will be awarded up to $30,000 each year for tuition, books, living expenses, and other required fees."

"The Philadelphia School Partnership has received a $5 million challenge grant from the Walton Family Foundation to help create and expand high-quality city schools. [��_] Education is one of the foundation's major areas of interest. It has given more than $1 billion to K-12 education efforts, especially those that expand options for low-income students."

"Clay County is one of the most beautiful parts of West Virginia, especially during the fall foliage season. Clay also is one of the poorest places in the nation."

"Parents of children enrolled in Head Start began looking for alternative child care on Tuesday, after the federal-government shutdown closed nine of the early-education centers in the Big Bend."

"In the two years since Edison schools have switched from serving breakfast before classes begin to after the bell rings, more eligible students are being served."

"A report finds the number of low-income children who eat breakfast at New Jersey schools has jumped by 21 percent from October 2010 to March 2012."

"Schools in New Jersey are feeding breakfasts to more low-income students, but as many as 320,000 who are eligible are still not being served."

"The labor is going to be long and difficult, but this baby is on its way in most affluent countries. Japan and Germany, two countries long considered laggards in the child care area, are now increasing their spending. In the United States, President Obama is keeping the issue atop his domestic agenda, where it is gaining traction despite slim chances of Congressional approval. Many states and several big cities have developed innovative and successful pre-K programs."

"Need evidence that the federal budget cuts enacted under the so-called sequester are taking a toll on people in North Jersey? Look no further than Head Start, the widely acclaimed program that provides early childhood education and other services to low-income children and their families."

"New SAT details released Thursday had some Georgia school districts bragging about eager students and hardworking teachers, while others were left to explain how disadvantages such as poverty dragged down their scores."

"When federal funding cuts took place this year, thousands of low-income children and their introduction to education through Early Head Start and Head Start programs were affected nationwide."

"A new book called Reign of Error' whose author, Diane Ravitch, is in the Golden State for a couple of days tries to convince us that fine schools are good enough for our children. Simply put, fine schools will not prepare our children for life and careers in this global information age."