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Two powerful new stories — one from China, the other set in Oakland, California — explore how educators are addressing perceived shortfalls in boys’ educa...

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...