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After an unarmed Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones watched events unfold from afar...

Divisive dialogue erupted last year after students from the University of Missouri formed a wall to prevent reporters from entering a public space — an area t...

It’s not hard to find a teacher willing to bend your ear about the volume of standardized testing in schools today, and the pressure for “test prep.” But ...

“Diversity — (noun) the state of being diverse; variety”...

There’s a perfect storm of poor conditions fueling America’s troubling achievement gap....

How do you get the best teachers in front of the students who need them the most? It’s an issue getting increased attention, but a tough problem to solve....

Whites, blacks, Asian-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are all graduating from college at higher rates now, but stubborn racial and gender gaps are widening, a ...

Texas advocates of ethnic studies in public schools celebrated two years ago when the State Board of Education voted to create instructional materials for class...

At Codman Academy Charter Public School, the walls in the lower school hallways aren’t covered in the bright reds, yellows, and oranges visitors might expect ...