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The California-based Puente Project's goal is to increase the number of Latinos graduating from four-year colleges, and then to urge those graduates to return t...
A school in Southern California put the kibosh on a series of events that included students dressing up as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stro...
An Alabama law that required schools to ask the immigration status of students enrolled in the state’s public schools was ruled unconstitutional by a federal ...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law on Thursday that aims to strengthen the state’s bilingual education programs by ordering a report on their effectiveness...
A new study published in Pediatrics suggests there could be a link between more stringent laws limiting junk food to students at school and children being at he...
In case anyone needed further evidence of just how difficult it can be for students to catch up once they’ve fallen behind on their reading skills, consider â...
A Council on Foreign Relations task force, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, claims that the poor quality of America’s public education syste...
A new report by the advocacy group Excelencia in Education found that Latinos earned just eight percent of all the degrees and certificates awarded in STEM-rela...
Just this past week, yet another new report was released by prominent researchers Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson, looking at the growth rate in U.S. student ac...
