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More Hispanic students are taking the ACT college-entrance exam, and in some states their scores inched up, new data show. But the achievement gap persists for ...
New U.S. Census data show a dramatic increase in the number of Hispanics attending school, reaching nearly 18 million in 2016. The figure — which covers educa...
Hurricane Harvey has pummeled Texas, with the greatest concentration of flooding in the Houston area. Local school districts that had intended to kick off the n...
When it comes to judging a school’s quality, what matters most?...
As part of an effort to boost the number of Latinos graduating with degrees in the STEM fields four universities will use a new federal grant to bring together ...
During and after the 2016 presidential campaign, questions arose about whether shortcomings in civics instruction had exacerbated polarization in the electorate...
When it comes to arts education, geography matters. A student in the Northeast region of the United States is significantly more likely to attend a school with...
The campus has a purposeful design called DeafSpace, a concept pioneered at Gallaudet over a decade ago, which includes sensory reach, space and proximity, mobi...
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