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A community program working to reduce violence through soccer and an after-school robotics class serving Latino youth in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan regio...

The California Community Colleges Board of Governors voted unanimously this week to appoint Eloy Ortiz Oakley as the system’s next chancellor...

Some critics of the current public higher education model say that because wealthier students are more likely to attend top-tier public universities, which are ...

Match Public Charter School started 16 years ago as a small high school and is the flagship of an unusual education nonprofit that describes itself as an “eng...

The complexity around covering issues of segregation was in high gear in June when investigative writer Nikole Hannah-Jones documented in the New York Times mag...

This special, morning-long session features a series of speakers aiming to illuminate under-recognized or under-reported facets of the challenges of providing e...

Developing a phone app to ensure students know their rights. Crafting legislation to advocate for student press freedom. Creating a civic engagement class. Thos...

Students of color represent more than half of the United States’ public school population, but their parents are the most underrepresented group of stakeholde...

If you haven’t yet heard of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the use of race as a factor in college admissions, you may have at least seen the #B...