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In the past quarter-century, Wendy Kopp’s idea for putting new college graduates to work in high-need public schools has grown from her undergraduate thesis p...

International comparisons in education usually focus on the national level—what countries can learn from one another. But a number of cities in North America ...

Whether it’s so their kids can do homework, play educational games or work with classmates on school projects, many low-income parents are motivated to purcha...

More than 22,000 young voters participated in the Republican caucuses Monday, a record turnout, according to an advocacy group for civic education....

With the first caucuses of the presidential election year imminent, it’s worth asking: Who will turn out among young voters in Iowa and subsequent states?...

More Latinos are going to college, but they’re doing it at a small number of schools, according to a new analysis from Excelencia in Education released this w...

A Latino student group at Duke University has declared the school is “not a safe space“ for Latinos, and announced this week it will no longer participate i...

A new study finds that black students with the same test scores as white students are still less likely to be selected for gifted and talented academic programs...

The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a survey of 898 participants from 27 prestigious American universities in which responden...