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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...

Amid the growing backlash by parents and educators against high-stakes testing, a group of education experts and researchers recently gathered together to envis...

A new study finds that Hispanic children with immigrant parents and black children of U.S.-born parents were rated the lowest on well-being indicators when comp...

In New Britain, Connecticut, a new school superintendent has pushed for a dramatic and controversial shift in how to instruct English Language Learners....

Early childhood education programs in the United States are like a patchwork quilt: Most states have a combination of programs, ranging from state-run prekinder...