This is in an area that is reckoned to be educationally poor-performing even by Nigerian standards.
Do these cities lag behind in "the civilizing process" because they're poor or educationally disadvantaged?
The athletes in major football and men's basketball programs are disproportionately black, many from poor and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
It is in this group of poor and educationally deprived young people that out-of-wedlock births are highest.
It's an effort by One Laptop Per Child (laptop.org) to develop a very low-cost, high-potential, extremely rugged computer for the two billion educationally underserved children in poor countries.
Yobe state is one of the poorest and educationally disadvantaged states of Nigeria - it is certainly the least developed state in the north-east.
Meantime, we keep slipping educationally, and the gap between rich and poor widens.
Over the past few days, we have learned that by far the most educationally deprived children in the country are poor, white and live in remote rural communities.
The Rio Grande Valley serves as a demographic portrait of one of the most educationally underserved populations in the United States: overwhelmingly poor (89 percent of the students in the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo district qualify for free meals) and overwhelmingly minority (99 percent Hispanic).
The city and the country lose ground, both educationally and in terms of social justice, when poor children find themselves trapped in a crumbling system that serves only to reinforce their poverty.
Poor working memory has measurable impacts on educationally relevant measures of children's performance.
