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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...
Hurricane Harvey has pummeled Texas, with the greatest concentration of flooding in the Houston area. Local school districts that had intended to kick off the n...