Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...

Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...

California’s out-of-school suspension rate is way down, but the “discipline gap” remains, reports Mario Koran on The 74. Black students...

Well, it looks like tracking to me. And I’m fine with it. Jonathan Plucker, a Johns Hopkins education professor, sees “a subtle shift” in...

Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...

“Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys,” concludes a...

Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...

Screening all children for giftedness could help close the “gifted gap” and reduce inequality, suggests a Fordham report. Only 6.1...

WalletHub’s list of most and least educated states reports that North Dakota has erased the racial education gap. Some 29.4 percent of...

Percentage of children and youth ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by race/ethnicity: 2014–15...

Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...

At 25 percent of urban charter schools, 99 percent of students are non-white, reports AP. That compares to 10 percent of traditional...

Progressive San Francisco is one of the worst districts in the state when it comes to educating low-income black and Latino students,...

White teachers’ low expectations for their black students could become “self-fulfilling prophecies,” concludes an analysis published in...

Parents cite “safety concerns” and “a belief that academics elsewhere are better,” they write. MPS “has struggled for years to close the...

Every year, Minnesotans laud the excellent test scores for white students and ignore or excuse the dreadful scores for non-whites, writes...

The U.S. is making “silent progress” on education, argues Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. She cites...

People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...

Teachers of color are the latest magic bullet for our education woes, writes Alina Adams on New York School Talk. Black teachers...

“Three of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards” on state exams, reports Matt...