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For decades teaching was considered a stable profession, with many individuals spending their entire careers at the front of the classroom. But the reality of a...

There’s been an explosion of interest in recent findings on the role of mindset and “grit” in student success. But along with this enthusiasm comes real c...

You’d think it would be clear when a teacher is absent from class, but the response to this week’s big report from the National Council on Teacher Quality h...

It’s well known that obtaining a college degree can give graduates a leg up financially over their lifetime, but it turns out that a person’s overall well-b...

Sit-ins were the preferred avenue of protest on college campuses during the 1960s and 1970s. Students protested in support of civil rights and opposition to war...

With the recent 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, civil rights and advocacy groups issued reports highlighting the con...

Trey Mack, a doctoral candidate in astronomy, didn’t believe he could land a spot in a great master’s program, let alone a doctoral program, until a friend ...

The impending closure of the National Hispanic University in San Jose, California, was sad news to many...

A decade ago in Las Vegas – where I spent eight years as an education beat reporter – the school district was a boom town of soaring student enrollment, bre...