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California high schools graduate Latino, black and low-income students at “alarmingly low rates,” according to The Education Trust-West researchers who anal...

University of Michigan researcher Matthew Ronfeldt — along with Susanna Loeb (Stanford University) and Jim Wyckoff (University of Virginia) — examined New Y...

At Zapata High School in south Texas, competition is fierce to earn one of 24 spots on the two-time state-champion varsity mariachi ensemble....

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, representing 5,600 schools in 41 states and the District of Columbia, has announced the appointment of Nina Re...

President Obama’s announcement today that the United States will stop deporting certain young illegal immigrants brought into the country as children comes o...

There’s lots of talk about the urgent need to improve Latino students’ math and science performance . But what programs exist that help Latino students purs...

Most of the first 12 states granted waivers from some of the tougher provisions of No Child Left Behind have provided few details on how they plan to satisfy a ...

With commencement season underway, luminaries and leaders are sharing their wisdom with new graduates heading out into the world....

There were a few readers who shared their thoughts with me on the new Center on Education Policy report, and their comments had some similar underlying themes....