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Pressure to work, high stress levels and lack of money for academic enrichment may contribute to lower education levels for the children of undocumented immigra...

A just-released book that highlights research on first-generation immigrant children and adolescents, including Latinos, shows that recent immigrant children ar...

Talia Milgrom-Elcott is a program officer in urban education with Carnegie Corporation of New York. She spoke with EWA about the new “100Kin10” initiative t...

In a recent column about the role of parental involvement in school, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez took issue with a local school board’s practice o...

I recently had the chance tointerview author and educational psychologist David Berliner, the Regents Professor of Education at Arizona State University, over o...

Educational psychologist David Berliner, the Regents Professor of Education at Arizona State University, spoke with EWA about high-stakes testing, accountabilit...

New research from the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences shows that bilingual babies stay open to different speech sounds fo...

Brian Lenze is starting his fifth year teaching high school biology–including honors and Advanced Placement classes–at Coronado High School in Henderson, Ne...

The September issue of Smithsonian magazine includes this fascinating piece about the school system in Finland, which is routinely ranked among the best in the ...