Latino Ed Beat

More Hispanic students are taking the ACT college-entrance exam, and in some states their scores inched up, new data show. But the achievement gap persists for ...

New U.S. Census data show a dramatic increase in the number of Hispanics attending school, reaching nearly 18 million in 2016. The figure — which covers educa...

As part of an effort to boost the number of Latinos graduating with degrees in the STEM fields four universities will use a new federal grant to bring together ...

Launched this year, the new program from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will award its first full scholarships to 300 students in 2018. The support will in...

With President Trump’s proposed federal budget calling for cuts in after-school programing, the nonprofit advocacy group Afterschool Alliance released an issu...

So how do Latino parents judge the quality of their child’s school? The good old-fashioned way: by reviewing their child’s report card...

Schools across the country took a hit in attendance Thursday as immigrant children joined nationwide protests intended to demonstrate what life would be like wi...

In a journalism class at the University of Central Florida Nicholson School of Communication, students learn how to pitch to an editor and tell stories — prac...

While the number of Latino teachers has increased in recent years to represent nearly 8 percent of the teacher workforce, the growth has not kept pace with stud...