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An increase in low-income and minority-group students will challenge colleges to serve them better...

Calling racial segregation a violation of human rights, two New York City councilors proposed a bill last week that seeks to combat the widespread segregation i...

More low-income Hispanic families are enrolling their children in early childhood care and education services, narrowing long-standing racial gaps in participat...

The U.S. isn’t No. 1 but it’s in the top 10: According to a respected international measure of American student performance in math and science, the nation�...

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...