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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...

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

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 ...

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

In an effort to measure students’ understanding of basic engineering and technology principles, a new national assessment aims to move beyond multiple-choice ...

As states and districts debate which standardized tests are best for students, they are evaluating many factors, including curriculum alignment, the amount of t...