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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 ...

When it comes to the story of Massachusetts’ public schools, the takeaway, according to the state’s former education secretary, Paul Reville, is that “doi...

Hispanic-serving institutions should do more than just enroll large numbers of Latino students. As their title implies, they’re also supposed to serve them, a...

With state testing season wrapping up, the decision by some families to skip the K-12 exams in protest this spring has once again sparked widespread discussion ...

For education journalists, writing about poverty poses many challenges. But one of the most overlooked is that it’s often difficult to know much about the soc...

Lincoln Alternative High School, in Walla Walla, Washington, is where all the bad kids went. Not anymore. In the early 2010’s, Principal Jim Sporleder, along ...

Education journalists have the critically important task of informing the public about education at the local, state, and national levels...

“Immigrants get the job done,” Lin-Manuel Miranda told graduates at the University of Pennsylvania’s commencement ceremony Monday. After all, it was a “...