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When a group of Harvard educators surveyed ninth-grade teachers and their students during a recent experiment, they found students who had common interests with...

Nationally, the number of minority teachers is increasing, but it’s not keeping pace with student demographics, concludes a new report issued by a union-affil...

New details on Common Core-aligned assessments came to light yesterday, as officials with one of the state testing consortia shared information on cut scores...

Fewer options for preschool, inexperienced teachers and low-performing schools are just some of the disadvantages children of immigrants face early in their edu...

Persistent childhood poverty—living below the federal poverty level for at least half of one’s childhood—is also prevalent, particularly among black child...

While too many students at all grade levels are regularly skipping school, many preschoolers and kindergarteners are missing nearly as much seat time as teenage...

In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated much of southeastern Louisiana, New Orleans and its surrounding areas have seen an influx of Hispanic immigra...

The ACLU of Nevada has announced that it will challenge the state’s new, high-profile “education savings account” law...

Getting a read on the American public’s views on education is no easy task, made more complicated by just how much local schools vary...