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With 52 data points over 52 weeks, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Minority-Serving Institutions hopes to raise public awareness about these types of ...

The precocious teen who’s too cool for school – earning high marks despite skipping class – is a pop-culture standard, the idealized version of an effortl...

Crossing an international border can be a hassle. But some parents in Mexico do it every day in pursuit of a better education for their children. ...

More than six decades since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision declared that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” Latino students fr...

The number of Hispanics taking the ACT exam jumped 50 percent from 2011 to 2015. But only 15 percent of those test takers are scoring well enough to be deemed c...

Only about 264,000 of the nearly 3.4 million teachers in the country are Latino. They represent 8 percent of teachers, while 22 percent of students are Latino, ...

While the number of parents who opt out of having their kids take their states’ standardized tests has grown nationally, much of this movement appears to be m...

This is the second consecutive year that U.S. students have finished on top in the International Mathematics Olympiad, although there have been impressively str...

Margarita is a four-year-old girl living in East Harlem. She speaks Spanish at home with her Mexican-born parents, is obedient, well-behaved and plays well with...