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Counselors, school resource officers, educators play key roles, experts say...

What reporters need to know about the College Board's experimental "Environmental Context Dashboard"...

A pair of new reports shed light on the well-being of children across the U.S....

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act is about to unleash a flood of new data, on everything from school-by-school spending to chronic absenteeism and achievem...

School segregation is a hot-button issue on the education beat. One strategy to address it, busing, has drawn widespread attention since a recent debate among D...

Upward economic mobility, long-term positive outcomes renewed focus of foundations...

Louise Kiernan, the editor-in-chief of ProPublica Illinois, once had an illuminating conversation with a reader about anonymous sources...

Effective school principals are hard to find and to keep, and turnover is a serious challenge. ...

We’ve all seen the startling statistics. Only a quarter of Americans can name the three branches of government. Only a quarter of high school seniors are ...