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Building social connections outside the family, especially with peers, is key to healthy adolescent development. Yet isolation wrought by the pandemic has curta...
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...
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...
The University of California, Davis opened a new center recently with a mission to aid undocumented immigrant students — a move unprecedented in the Universit...
According to a news release, HSIs have more than doubled — from 189 institutions in 1994 to 409. Latino enrollment at these colleges and universities has grow...
More students in the United States are graduating from high school, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education...
When it comes to giving high-school diplomas to Latino males, Alaska does it best. Nevada has some work to do....
As many states dig out from yet another winter storm, school districts are struggling to keep the academic calendar – and student learning – from being dera...
Sixteen-year-old boys with third grade reading and math skills are exactly the pupils a Chicago tutoring experiment is targeting — and helping. ...
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