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Spanish professor Luis Fernando Restrepo wanted his children to be bilingual. But living in Arkansas — where Spanish classes aren’t offered until junior hig...

Latinos older than age 5 are speaking English better now than the same demographic group did in 2000, a new Pew Research Center study shows....

Most students don’t study using methods backed by scientific research, panelists at the Education Writers Association’s deep dive on the science of learning...

It may be nestled near the middle in a list of the Top 100 Colleges for Hispanics, but Montclair State University in New Jersey received front cover-worthy reco...

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American eighth-graders continue to demonstrate lackluster knowledge and skills when asked basic questions about U.S. history, geography, and civics, with betwe...

For teacher Merlinda Maldonado’s sixth graders at Hill Middle School in Denver, it’s not necessarily about getting the answer right...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan subjected himself to what might have been the ultimate edu-press conference in Chicago Tuesday....

“Scholars suggest that being explicit about the impact of racism in schools and society and developing an antiracist school culture in which people of color f...