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Charter school advocates and skeptics speaking at a recent Education Writers Association convening for Spanish-language media agreed on little except this: Char...

The often secretive and arbitrary-seeming acceptance and rejection decisions by elite colleges have long sparked controversy and, thus, news stories....

To engage and grow their digital audience, journalists at CNN study the numbers...

Colleagues offer tributes to The Dallas Morning News Reporter and EWA member....

Decades of restrictions on bilingual education in public schools across the country — and particularly in California — led to a dramatic reduction of biling...

Walter Kimbrough remembers when Emory University canceled a speech by Khalid Abdul Muhammad....

The United States spends more than $600 billion a year on public elementary and secondary education, federal data indicate...

Given the opportunity to go beyond a singular focus on test scores to measure schools’ success, will states begin holding schools accountable for teaching ski...

Beth Slovic, a longtime education journalist in Portland, Oregon, was making dinner for her family when she noticed a bearded guy on a bicycle pulling up outsid...