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A new brief by The Education Trust celebrates the spike in college enrollment by Latino students, but calls attention to the need to improve six-year graduation...

With the nation’s childhood obesity rate triple what it was 30 years ago for adolescents, expectations that schools will do more to help keep students healthy...

In a surprise move, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is being named as the next president of the University of California university syste...

The percentage of Latino teachers in Colorado lags far behind the state’s diverse student population....

The achievement gap between Hispanic and white students in math and reading has narrowed since the 1970s, according to data from a national exam...

We asked some of the journalists attending EWA’s 66th National Seminar, held at Stanford University in May, to contribute posts from the sessions. You can fin...

We asked some of the journalists attending EWA’s 66th National Seminar, held at Stanford University in May, to contribute posts from the sessions....

Schools are kind of like Congress. Most people claim they hate Capitol Hill, but they like their own representative. Similarly, people say the U.S. education sy...

One year after the White House unveiled a website that helped users plan for the costs necessary to attend college, a new article from Inside Higher Ed gives th...