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

Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...

To protect students from racial slurs that might make them feel uncomfortable and “marginalized,” Duluth public schools will drop To Kill...

To illustrate the horrors of slave ships, a middle-school teacher told three black students to lie on the floor and stepped on a girl’s...

Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...

School integration is a mirage, writes RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. Cambridge,Massachusetts is a “leader in school...

Open the doors to advanced classes to a wide range of students, argues AP social studies teacher Nate Bowling on EdWeek...

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

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

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears to be gearing up to rescind Obama-era discipline policies. A 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter warned...

America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system...

Jung-ah Choi, a “college faculty member, teaching and writing about social justice, race, and education,” isn’t involved in her son’s...

St. Louis teachers are turning their classrooms into “hubs of social justice,” reports Kristen Taketa for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A...

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

A free online class on integrating social justice into high school math has been revised to focus on “social issues,” reports Toni...

Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...

“Low-income black students who have just one black teacher in grades 3-5 are more likely to graduate and consider college,” a recent...

“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in  2013. Test scores are falling,...

replace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...

Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...