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Efforts to overhaul struggling schools have existed for decades, but it wasn’t until President Obama fortified the process with $3.5 billion in 2009 that the ...

This study delves into the questions of how best to determine whether students who enroll in community colleges should be placed in college-level or remedial co...

Depending on whom you ask, the Tucson Unified School District is either banning books or just boxing them up for storage...

The day I was accepted to college, the letter was waiting for me after school, peeking out from a stack of mail on a counter....

They are known as transfronterizos: children living in Mexico who cross the border into the United States daily to attend public schools...

Are the graduate students at your college or university unionized? Do you believe student-employees need union protections?...

Change the Equation is a coalition of business leaders who are working to transform the ways students in the United States learn science, technology, engineeri...

This isn’t necessarily a story about education, but it speaks volumes about the challenges and often limited opportunities many young adults in this country f...

Gary Miron, a professor of education at Western Michigan University, is the lead author of a new National Education Policy Center report examining Education Man...