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As demographic shifts change the size – and racial profile – of high school graduation classes, one debate in higher education will continue to swirl: Do th...
A new report takes aim at New Jersey’s public schools, describing the segregation of black and Latino students into certain schools as an “apartheid” syst...
One of the most widely used math curricula in elementary schools, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space, also known as simply “Investigations” or by its...
The SAT college entrance exam picture for Hispanic students is mixed, based on 2013 data released Thursday by the College Board....
Following up on its award-winning reporting on a cheating scandal in Atlanta’s public schools – which spurred the retirement of Beverly Hall, the district...
Aimee Rogstad Guidera founded the Data Quality Campaign in 2005 as a temporary advocacy group to get every state to set up its own longitudinal data system by 2...
A new report finds that the academic achievement gap between Latino and white students in Rhode Island is among the worst in the nation, and English Language Le...
In Texas, poor Hispanic children who are English language learners, face “triple segregation” because they are isolated by virtue of their ethnicity, socioe...
A new report highlighting the growing rate of poverty among suburban residents warns that traditional policies aimed at combating indigence aren’t designed to...
