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When students are encouraged to think and learn outside of the box, not only do they become more involved in their education, but they have a learning experienc...

Call them the top four percent: elite private colleges and universities that together sit atop three-quarters of the higher education terrain’s endowment weal...

The Boston school district currently has five dual-language programs — in which students learn core subject matter in two languages — and is developing plan...

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...