The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

Should we simply throw up our hands and give up? Not according to Robert Putnam, the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. In his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, ...

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I’m a card-carrying member of three parent school associations. I write the weekly newsletter for the special-education parents’ group and help organize social events for disabled kids. But my ...

WASHINGTON -- It is rare for a work of sociology to leave readers choking back emotion, but Robert Putnam’s “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” is sociology as story, as tragedy and as an act of ...