Socioeconomic status explains some of the Black/White achievement gap and most of the Hispanic/White achievement gap.

Engineering, computer science, accounting, finance and medicine will not be options for people who couldn't find the lowest common...

Achievement gaps are large and growing across the country, writes Chad Aldeman on The 74. It's not the pandemic: Scores have been falling...

Black students can opt to take all-black classes -- with a black teachers -- in math and writing at Evanston Township High School near...

You can't win if you don't play. The only way to improve student achievement is to "get butts in seats," writes Jessica Grose in the New...

Forty-four percent of 13-year-olds (eighth grade) did no homework in 2022, writes Tom Loveless. The numbers are very similar for...

Public schools spend billions on equity training, but have no idea what works, writes Katherine Reynolds Lewis in USA Today. "None of the...

After Oakland schools closed in March, 2020, eight-year-old Cayla J. had two remote classes. Then, according to her mother, the teacher...

"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...

Black, Hispanic and low-income students gain the most in reading and math compared to similar students at district schools, concludes a...

America's 13-year-olds are moving backwards educationally, according to a new report on long term trends by the National Assessment of...

Not all education problems are solvable, if we just try hard enough or spend enough, argues Freddie DeBoer in a column on optimism bias. ...