School is a safe haven from the streets, students at Baltimore’s Excel Academy tell Kevin Rector, a Baltimore Sun reporter. Seven...

Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...

Locke High has improved in its 10 years as a Green Dot charter school. But it remains a very low-performing school, report Kyle Stokes...

New Mexico will make applying to college a high school graduation requirement, under a bill moving through the Legislature. “Exceptions...

New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — not Chicago — are the fastest-improving urban districts, argue Emily Langhorne and David Osborne of...

Three-quarters of Chicago Public School students come from low-income families. As third graders, they test below the second-grade level...

Enrollment is soaring at Benito Juarez Community Academy. Photo: Amadou Diallo/Hechinger Report Choice has emptied many low-performing...

Chicago’s charter high schools are helping underdog kids get to college, according to a study by the University of Chicago Consortium on...

Grades, attendance, test scores and graduation rates are up in Chicago Public Schools. Helping ninth graders raise their grades is paying...

Student internships “saved” a low-performing Chicago school that serves low-income students, writes Hechinger’s Chris Berdik in The...

Chicago’s Sullivan High has raised its enrollment and test scores by welcoming immigrants and refugees, reports Elly Fishman for Chicago...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to add a new graduation requirement for public school students, reports the Chicago Tribune. By 2020,...

High schools are inflating graduation rates and test scores by steering low achievers to alternative schools, reports ProPublica and USA...

Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. Photo: Linda Lutton/WBEZ “School is what makes the American Dream possible,” writes WBEZ reporter...

Although Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is “essentially bankrupt,” the district is operating dozens of half-empty schools, reports Chicago...