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The The Civil Right Project at UCLA’s last national look at charter schools, in 2010, found that racial and ethnic isolation of minorities is far more common ...

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...

President Obama has renamed the My Brother’s Keeper initiative he created to close the opportunity gaps faced by black and Latino males, hoping the new monike...

More Americans are pursuing graduate degrees, but it’s the students from wealthier backgrounds who are most likely to earn the degrees that pay the most, a ne...

The outgoing Obama administration placed for-profit colleges under a great deal of scrutiny....

A Q&A With Outgoing Executive Director Alejandra Ceja....

News stories often state that black and Latino males have lower test scores and graduation rates than their white and Asian peers, that they’re more likely to...

The ability to speak more than one language can enhance brain function, academic performance and business acumen, linguistic experts said at a U.S. House of Rep...