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Children of undocumented immigrants represent a growing share of U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, a Pew Research Center analysis of American Co...

A child’s race, ethnicity, and immigrant status could determine whether a teacher reaches out to that student’s parents, a new study out of New York Univers...

After months of controversy surrounding a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that critics called racist and inaccurate, the Texas State Board of Educati...

San Francisco’s Mission High School made the state’s list of lowest-performing schools and it was the subject of several news stories highlighting its poor ...

In her first election, 19-year-old Melissa Kelley voted for Hillary Clinton. “There’s a million reasons” why, she said. “Donald Trump is just so anti-ev...

Many school districts have begun offering additional counseling and support services for students who fear for their futures under the next presidential adminis...

Advocates of bilingual education got a big win in California Tuesday, when an overwhelming majority of the electorate voted to end the state’s longstanding En...

The long, strange election cycle came to an end Tuesday with the election of Donald Trump as the next president...

U.S. students are stagnating in reading and science proficiency while their math scores declined slightly, based on new results from an international assessment...