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Do students from wealthy or politically connected families get preference in the admissions process?...
Education reporters can expect to hear a lot more about school choice over the next four to eight years. ...
Nationally, politicians and others frequently tout Hartford, Connecticut, and its magnet schools as a model of school integration...
The classroom descriptions draw from Deeper Learning: The Planning Guide by Monica Martinez and Dennis McGrath and from the work underway by members of the Deep...
The best data are often the hardest to parse. Sure, a neat snapshot of three or four variables is easy on the eyes, but to really dig deep and find important an...
On the question of state standards, the short answer appears to be “not much.” That doesn’t mean Sept. 11 isn’t being taught....
In 1910, one in four children in the U.S. was an immigrant, and most of that group were European, Christian and white....
Charter schools have grown at a rapid rate over the past 20 years as parents, activist groups, lawmakers and others look for alternatives to the traditional pub...
Award-winning Boston Globe journalist Meghan Irons shares lessons from her reporting on two complex stories about students and race...
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