Universities can enhance diversity by giving an admissions break to disadvantaged students of all races. It's legal and it's good politics.

A majority of black, Hispanic and low-income fourth-graders have "below basic" reading skills. Does it matter?

When states are judged by how well students overcome disadvantages, Mississippi is a winner and high-scoring Massachusetts is mediocre.

Growing up in a single-parent family is a huge disadvantage in life, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in Forbes. If racial preferences...

"Free" tuition has boosted two-year graduation rates in Tennessee, but low-income students need more help to complete a degree.

As a math teacher in the early 2000s, Adrian Mims saw few Black and Hispanic students succeeding in Brooklin (MA) High School's honors...

Schools that help disadvantaged students achieve focus on consistently good teaching, a strong, shared curriculum and lots of collaboration.

Urban charters in high-poverty areas have become the most challenging high schools in the country, as measured by students taking...

High-needs students have a hard time getting into vocational-tech schools in Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe. Most of the highly...

Yale is not “being honest about the reality of our admissions process” because the university is “denying 98 percent of the students who...

Dartmouth will require applicants to submit standardized test scores such as the SAT or ACT, ending a long "pandemic pause," reports...

Reading and math scores are on their way up, reports the Education Recovery Scorecard. On average, students in grades three through eight...

The "new normal" of student behavior -- a toxic mix of disrespect, disruption, violence and apathy -- is driving teachers to despair,...

Expanding free preschool is a progressive priority. Early experiments in the 1960s and 1970s -- Perry Preschool program and the...

College admissions are "murky," and getting murkier, writes Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor, on Persuasion. "Test-optional"...

"The basic philosophy of the Advanced Placement Program is simply that all students are not created equal," said the program's director,...

KIPP charters are game changers, concludes a new Mathematica study. Compared to similar students who applied to KIPP but lost the...

Akron's I Promise School opened five years ago with high hopes and lots of extra funding from basketball star LeBron James' foundation....

Abbott Elementary, a popular ABC sitcom about teachers at an inner-city Philadelphia school, is "entertaining but not elucidating" about...

Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...