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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...

For nearly three decades, a White House commission created to help boost Hispanic student achievement has advised four presidents and their secretaries of educa...

The second-graders at a charter school in the nation’s capital recently discovered a problem: a lack of “green spaces” in certain parts of the city....

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...