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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...
For her story Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong, Mother Jones contributing writer Kristina Rizga went deep inside San Francisco’s Missi...
I wanted to follow up on a new survey I wrote about recently that asked students why they skipped school. I heard from a few readers (including some at The Atla...
For many school districts across the country, today is the first day of a new year. For education reporters, finding fresh angles on familiar turf can be a chal...
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 ...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law on Thursday that aims to strengthen the state’s bilingual education programs by ordering a report on their effectiveness...
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