…about getting Hispanic students into college, and supporting them while they’re there? USA Today reports: Pushed by their parents and educators, more Hispanics than ever are attending college in the hopes of securing their place in the U.S. middle class, presenting a growing challenge for institutions that in the past have catered to mostly white students. As they navigate challenges such as the bureaucracy of higher education and paying tuition in an environment where so fe

Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), known as the “nation’s report card.” The best students did better and the worst students did worse, widening achievement gaps. Except for a slight uptick in eighth-grade reading since 2015, scores remained about the same. It’s been a “lost decade” for educational progress, writes Mike Petrilli. Hechinger’s Jill Barshay calls it a

Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern California’s Understanding America Study (UAS), reports Education Next. Last year, Education Next‘s poll showed a sharp drop in support for charters. Could the dip be a blip?, Rick Hess and Amy Cummings asked in 2017. Apparently, so. On the 2018 survey, 47 percent of adults supported charter schools and 29 percent oppose them, with the remainin

The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool through college, according to a new Census report. Graduation rates have risen sharply for Hispanic students, reports Marilyn Garateix on the Education Writers of America site. “In 1996, 35 percent of Hispanics ages 18 to 24 had not completed and were not enrolled in high school. By 2016, the figure had plummeted to 9.9 percent, 4 points higher th

The U.S. is making “silent progress” on education, argues Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. She cites “genuinely good news” in the Department of Education report, The Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups. Since 1992, on the fourth grade NAEP reading assessment, the white-black score gap narrowed from 32 points to 26 points. This was not due to a drop in white scores, which went up by 8 points, but results from an even