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After countless false starts and protracted negotiations, a bill to reauthorize the main federal law for K-12 education is slated for consideration by the U.S. ...

Laptops chimed as students played a game designed to teach them the basics of geometry inside a fourth grade classroom at the Cesar E. Chavez Multicultural Acad...

Five years ago, Nicholas Senn High School on the Near North Side of Chicago was one some educators felt lucky to avoid. While student discipline might have been...

A lot has changed about applying to college, but one thing that has endured for generations is the dreaded FAFSA....

Focusing on student learning, and structuring the school to fit students’ varied learning paces, is proving to be a game changer, said panelists at EWA’s re...

The Noble Network of Charter Schools is arguably Chicago’s most famous charter chain....

More Latinos are earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields; yet more are needed, a new report by Excelencia in Education claims....

Four East Coast cities and one in California made the list of the top five metropolitan areas with the most educated Latino population in a recent National Jour...

Five years after the Common Core standards were completed, how have educational publishers responded? Where are schools turning for instructional materials? And...