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Preparations for the latest storm — which local meteorologists say could reach “historical proportions” – included deciding well in advance to cancel sc...

Many states are struggling mightily to hire minority teachers who reflect the growing diversity of their public school students. ...

The American Dream narrative is a storyline so deeply embedded in American popular culture that as writers, we use it often in our storytelling....

Education Week’s annual “Quality Counts” project was published Thursday, and it’s loaded with data, story ideas and thought-provoking reporting on how s...

More than 5.3 million American public school students would struggle to understand this sentence....

When the advocacy organization Young Invincibles made a tag cloud of responses to a survey of students’ attitudes toward financial aid, “confusing” and �...

To the sound of a score composed by New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis, the documentary film Rebirth: New Orleans opens with footage of the city soon after it h...

With today marking the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death, I thought I would share a post I wrote last year....

Latina teens who are bilingual, have Hispanic teachers and counselors, and are involved in extracurricular activities have a stronger likelihood of attending co...