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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...

The shift from high school to college or the workforce is harrowing enough, but for the 6 million students diagnosed with a disability, the stakes are higher an...

If teachers and principals want students on center stage in their classrooms, they’ll first have to do a lot of work backstage....