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Over the years, studying abroad has become a popular part of the undergraduate college experience....

State takeover districts have been lauded as the savior of children left behind by inept local school boards — and derided as anti-democratic fireworks shows ...

The July 21 issue of The New Yorker takes us deep inside the Atlanta cheating scandal, and through the lucid reporting of Rachel Aviv, we get to know some of th...

With the Vergara v. California lawsuit shining a spotlight on teacher tenure, it’s easy to forget that for many places, tenure isn’t the issue. The bigger p...

In 2004, a group of four undocumented immigrant Latino high school students accomplished an astonishing achievement, they defeated students from the prestigious...

Even in a largely rural state, Latinos are quickly reshaping demographics...

“One of the most demonstrative findings shows that students learn at different rates, and one size won’t fix all”, David Lubinski said....

Competitive colleges in the U.S. have an image problem: By many accounts, their student bodies are much whiter and richer than the general population...

How does a school educate its special education students alongside kids who don’t have a disability? At Susan Gray School in Nashville, teachers and scholars ...