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When it comes to having their voices heard, teachers overwhelmingly say they aren’t being listened to on matters of education policy at the state or national ...
Latino children now make up one out of every four first-graders in the state of Oregon, reports The Oregonian....
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...
