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The Broader Bolder Approach to Education is a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence-based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children’s readiness to learn.

Read the BBA Mission Statement and Accountability Statement to learn more. Use the BBA short video and infographic to spread the word. Access the new BBA report, Market-Oriented Reforms' Rhetoric Trumps Reality, and executive summary, here.

BBA's Research Base

The BBA Bibliography provides synopses of seminal research works that demonstrate how living in poverty impedes educational attainment and the efficacy of a broader, bolder approach to education.

“ Given the strong associations between poverty and poor outcomes in many families, the increasing numbers of families in poverty, and the fact that no one strategy has proved successful in breaking the cycle of poverty, it is likely that interventions that are intensive and delivered over several years are most likely to be successful (e.g. the income-supplement programs with effects on externalizing behaviors were of two or three years’ duration).

From The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, J Lawrence Aber, and William R Beardslee

View the full BBA Bibliography