Public schools cost $1 trillion a year with high-poverty, non-white districts and schools getting more. But achievement is "uneven."

Minimally guided "discovery learning" privileges the privileged student who know what they're looking for.

Boys from low-income and immigrant families do much better in gifted classes compared to similar boys who just missed the IQ cutoff.

Black fourth-graders in Mississippi, one of our poorest states, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be proficient in reading as black students in California.

"Progressives" don't want to believe education reforms can help poor children learn more.

Let's learn from schools where disadvantaged children are becoming proficient readers.

"Socioeconomic" preferences often help low-income blacks, but low-income Asian Americans.

Money earned by people who were very, very good at math is being spent to promote anti-racist, justice-infused not-very-mathy math.

To offer a demanding, powerful curriculum to every child is not elitist. It is egalitarian.

"No excuses" charters were closing achievement gaps, until "equity" crusaders persuaded them to lower academic and behavioral expectations.

"No excuses" urban charters were closing achievement gaps, until they adopted "anti-racist" and "social justice" ideology, argues a charter founder fired for backing high expectations.

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...