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Chicago Public Schools has announced the debut of a new interdisciplinary Latino and Latin American Studies curriculum that will be taught to students in kinder...

New figures released this week show that for the second year in a row, Latino students accounted for only 7 percent of those who were accepted to New York Cityâ...

Nearly a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, and, in doing so, catalyzed one of the most dramatic expansions of school choice in the country. ...

The superintendent of Richmond Public Schools in Virginia issued a public apology Monday for a two-year-old incident in which Latino students were searched and ...

Education reporters spend plenty of time writing about what happens during the regular academic day – but what about the enrichment activities that can benefi...

A petition addressed to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña is asking the administration to end the use of metal detectors ...

A bill that would make it easier for undocumented immigrants to obtain teaching licenses in Nevada will soon make its way to the state’s Assembly floor, vario...

Building social connections outside the family, especially with peers, is key to healthy adolescent development. Yet isolation wrought by the pandemic has curta...

Latino children and their white peers have similar access to technology, a new study finds, but a digital divide persists: how parents use digital tools to adva...