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The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Excelencia in Education has released its annual list of college programs and community groups that are effectively supporti...
The number of Hispanic students enrolled in charter schools is growing, as is support for school choice among Hispanic parents, a new report by the National All...
“A bad attitude is like a bad tire: You can’t go anywhere until you change it,” Arizona State University sophomore Ricardo Nieland told a roomful of journ...
ASU President Michael Crow with his thoughts on faculty diversity....
“The Super School Project was born out of the conviction and commitment that every child from every background has a right to a quality education that prepare...
There are hundreds of thousands of students who cross borders to attend schools in both the U.S. and Mexico during their elementary, middle and high school year...
For Neal Morton, taking over the K-12 schools beat for the Las Vegas Review-Journal earlier this year represented two kinds of homecoming....
On the question of state standards, the short answer appears to be “not much.” That doesn’t mean Sept. 11 isn’t being taught....
The Hispanic population is no longer the fastest-growing group in the U.S., falling second to Asians due to lower immigration rates from Latin America and fewer...
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