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Participation in the Advanced Placement program has more than doubled over the past decade, with nearly 2.5 million students taking one or more AP exams in 2015...

These experiences are happening, as educators and experts told an audience at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar in May....

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 ...