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The U.S. Department of Education is celebrating a new milestone for the nation’s high school graduation rate, with just over 82 percent of seniors earning dip...

At High Tech High School in San Diego, there are no bells that signal the start of class periods. There are no seven-period days, no mock standardized assessmen...

For years, common experience and studies have prescribed that humans learn best in their earliest years of life – when the brain is developing at its fastest....

Twenty-three percent of Hispanic or Latino community college students have very little security when it comes to their next meal, according to a study released ...

Since 2003, more information is produced every two days than the total sum of information produced between that year and the dawn of time, the CEO of Google sai...

Tying teacher pay to student test scores. Creating public schools of choice with private operators. Setting common standards for all students. Those issues prob...

It’s the story told over and over: A child from a poor neighborhood attends a failing school but somehow beats the odds and rises to success....

A new report analyzing a decade’s worth of college graduation rates at more than 1,300 four-year colleges and universities reveals both positive and negative ...

Boaler explained that new research into brain plasticity says that mistakes actually grow the brain. Boaler cited research suggesting that every time a student ...