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An affordable college education. Politicians and bus stop ads promise it, students and parents dream of it. But can anyone define it?...

The more selective the institution, the higher the graduation rate for Latino students, a new study by Excelencia in Education shows...

Combining academic and career classes is key to the School of Business and Tourism. It shares this approach with other schools in California’s Linked Learning...

Seventy percent of the students at Verbum Dei are Latino, and 30 percent are black, NBC4 News reports. Many come from troubled neighborhoods with high poverty a...

For every savant who’s skilled enough to ditch class and still ace the course, many more who miss school fall way behind, increasing their odds of dropping ou...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights released its latest Civil Rights Data Collection, a comprehensive database with informatio...

With Donald Trump now seen as the presumptive Republican nominee for president, after his strong victory in the Indiana primary, attention surely will grow to w...

In the dozen years that Angela Duckworth has researched the concept of grit, she’s found new ways to test its validity, identified examples of it in popular c...

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