Judy King, head of Riverside Girls High School in Sydney, has students from more than 40 ethnic groups at her school.

ECONOMIST: Learning about the past

They are more likely than other Asians to be employed (though they earn slightly less than Indians) and Sri Lankan children do better at school than any ethnic group bar the Chinese.

ECONOMIST: Tamil Tigers in Britain

Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, Macaulay spent "rough days" at DeWitt Clinton High School, afflicted by overcrowding and ethnic tensions.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Dropping out remains a problem at the high school level, especially among students from racial and ethnic minorities and low-income families.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The curriculum reflects the priorities of the school's founder, a member of Iraq's ethnic Turkmen minority.

NPR: 10 Years After US Invasion, Kurds Look To The West

Thus, while Romania had achieved a near-universal youth and adult literacy rate (98%) and access to primary school for children aged 15 and below (93%) as of 2006, ethnic, gender and regional literacy disparities remain evidently sharp.

UNESCO: Parent Empowerment for Family Literacy Project (PEFaL)

The child of an ethnic-Chinese street vendor in Bangkok, Mr. Charoen started a small distillery with partners after dropping out of school and successfully bid for a government liquor concession.

WSJ: Heineken, Thailand's Charoen Reach Deal on Asia Pacific Breweries