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The findings paint a picture of a new generation of teachers who have high expectations for their students and a strong desire to build a profession based on hi...
EWA spoke Shelby McIntosh, a research associate at the Center on Education Policy, about the new report High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition...
In the “Obamacare” ruling, NFIB v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court told us that conditions attached to federal spending are unenforceable if they cross the line...
A study released this week shed some positive light on the nurturing nature of Mexican immigrant mothers, while at the same time confirming that a warm home env...
South Texas cities with large Latino populations are some of the least diverse communities in America, according to a US2010 Project study of Census data....
California is no stranger to pushing the policy envelope, but a bill sitting on the governor’s desk could dramatically alter the way professors earn tenure...
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 ...
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