Kalan Houser took the AP World History at Port of Los Angeles High School in May. As more students take Advanced Placement classes, a...

Universal, free (government-funded) pre-kindergarten is a popular cause, writes Russ Whitehurst, a senior fellow in Brookings’ Center on...

“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...

San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...

With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...

New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...

By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...

Amarillo College’s war on poverty includes a food pantry, a clothing closet and a supply of free toiletries and “an emergency fund that...

The switch to Common Core instruction was annoying, intriguing, inconsistent and sometimes unnoticeable, concludes a survey of 54...

At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...

Zachary Wright loves College Signing Day, but hates to see low-income achievers locked out of college by high costs, he writes on...

Elite universities help well-off students do well, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. They do little for upward mobility because they...

A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...

all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...

In 2005, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) promised to deliver rugged $100 laptops to poor children around the world, linking them to the...

Most KIPP graduates feel a sense of belonging in college, according to a survey released by the charter network. However, “the majority...

We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Thirty-six percent of four-year college students and 42 percent of community-college students are “food insecure,” according to a report...

The principal of a K-8 school in San Francisco’s gentrifying Mission District wants to shelter homeless families in the gym, reports Jill...

White liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...