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Dual-language immersion programs are continuing to expand in schools across the country, Education Week’s Lesli A. Maxwell reports in a recent story....

“The Hunger Games” might be the most widely anticipated film based on a young-adult novel series since “Harry Potter,” but does that make it an appropri...

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A Miami high school valedictorian ordered deported to her native Colombia is inspiring a groundswell of community support, protests and media coverage...

The main study in this ongoing series by the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education evaluated the student demographics, learning pr...

A DePauw University journalism professor turned a student’s underage drinking arrest into a teachable moment about public records that his class – and the r...

School districts across the country are on the defensive because of an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation that has been raising questions about the vali...

This paper highlights from a survey by Common Core and the Farkas Duffett Research Group Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the American Federation of Teacher...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has suggested that America’s students would be better off with less federal involvement in their learning, and...