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A survey of Latino residents in Montgomery County, Maryland, reveals their attitudes toward education...
Kristen DiCerbo of GlassLab/Pearson, talks about using digital tools to build better assessments....
A report by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights finds that a Colorado school district created a hostile environment for Hispanic and Sp...
Marking the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v Board of Education, the UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles...
PISA was created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to provide a comparable measure of public education systems around the glob...
Reading and math scores for the nation’s 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education ...
Since 2005, U.S. high school seniors have made slight gains in both their reading and math skills, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Educ...
Amid the excitement over the news this week that the nation’s high school graduation rate has hit 80 percent for the first time, some important questions stil...
For the first time, more Latino than white California students have been offered admission to attend the University of California system as freshmen. ...
