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Next up at EwaGlobal: reporters do TIMSS & PISA test items...
The transformative potential in growth mindsets and social-emotional skills such as grit may be more applicable to students whose basic needs are already met....
A growth mindset is “the belief that you can develop your abilities”, according to Carol Dweck....
About a third of the students who started college in 2009 have since dropped out, joining the millions of young adults who never entered college in the first pl...
In Finland you’re not supposed to wonder — let alone ask out loud — if one school is better than another. That’s because all Finnish schools are designe...
Latin Americans who migrate to the United States today are more likely to have achieved higher levels of education than their counterparts before them, accordin...
As reporters, we often take it for granted when we visit a high-poverty school that it will be surrounded by a similarly struggling neighborhood....
More Hispanic students in Music City are enrolled in music classes than ever before...
University of Louisville President James Ramsey made national headlines after he was photographed wearing a sombrero and multi-colored poncho at a Mexican-theme...
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