Economic Disparities

This report presents a state-by-state analysis of children's and adolescents' access to health insurance and health care, including how that has changed since the State Children's Health Insurance

This fact sheet highlights national patterns of health and mental health disparities in early childhood, and provides recommendations for reducing these disparities.

This brief discusses challenges to family strengthening, such as changing family structure, changing roles and responsibilities, and changing demographics.

This study examines the achievement gap using a large sample of students from a wide variety of school districts across the United States.

This Web site allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas across the U.S.

This brief provides a blueprint for policymakers, teachers, families, community leaders, and researchers to use effective preschool curricula and teaching strategies to help low-income young childr

This report examines 100 of the largest metro areas in the U.S. and how inequalities in neighborhoods and school environments affect children.

This issue brief describes the school-to-home communication practices as well as opportunities for parent involvement at school as reported by parents of school-age students from English- and Spani

This Urban Institute fact sheet reviews trends in the risks facing families, such as child maltreatment, domestic violence, children's disabilities, substance abuse, and parental mental illness.

This report appraises each state according to thirty indicators across three major categories: student achievement for low-income, African-American, and Hispanic students; achievement trends for th