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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...

If you’re a student at an American college or university, chances are you’ll be living and learning in the midst of a more diverse student body than student...

The Council of the Great City Schools reported that students take an average of 113 high-stakes tests between prekindergarten and 12th grade....

Small class sizes, athletic scholarship opportunities and track records for serving low-income, first-generation college students could be what’s driving the ...

Urban education leaders crammed a marathon of Chicago’s public education woes and wonders into a 45-minute session (more akin to a 5K race) at the Education W...

In the conversations surrounding low-income students’ access to college, there’s one statistic that Harold Levy finds most worrisome: Among those students w...

Preschool advocates have had a tough time convincing lawmakers that spending money in the earliest years of a child’s education has a long-term payoff....

An elective course designed to motivate Hispanic students to finish high school and go to college will be piloted in six Broward County, Florida high schools th...