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Over at EWA Radio, we explored the debate over how so-called noncognitive factors like “grit” influence student achievement, and how schools are rethinking ...

In a new study evaluating the college application habits of recent high school graduates in Texas, researchers found that academically talented Hispanic and bla...

“The spread of charter schools throughout the East Bay and California is often viewed as a blessing or curse, depending on whom you ask,” a recent Contra Co...

Schools that that teach low-income students a notoriously demanding curriculum are almost twice as likely to see those students enroll in college, a new report ...

Ray Salazar calls himself a “white rhino.” He’s Latino and a high school English teacher, a description and perspective that’s perhaps as rare as the cr...

Latino students might shun Advanced Placement courses if the only students they see in them are mostly affluent whites...

In an early glimpse of how much tougher state tests could be in the Common Core era, a new federal report released in July shows that early adopters of the cont...

Does an Arizona law banning Mexican-American studies curriculum in public schools intentionally discriminate against Hispanics? That’s the question a federal ...

With the Supreme Court set to take another look at a controversial affirmative action case in Texas college admissions, some worry what a second decision from t...