Kentucky Country Day School faces backlash after a valedictorian's speech sparked a cultural shift and parental outrage.

North Carolina's public schools are outpacing most of the nation in elementary and middle school math, a new national study ...

Stephan Thernstrom, a social historian and strong opponent of affirmative action who taught at Harvard for over thirty years, ...

But a new analysis of state and national test scores shows the average student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic achievement in both reading and math. In reading, especially, students are ...

Zola Davis, Quincy Hall, Ivory Latta, Deliah 'Dee" Arrington, Lee Casey Manning, Roddy White, Kevin Garnett off our Black History Month series.

Flat test scores prompt educators from 4 St. Louis schools to visit Washington, D.C., to see how it's done in $1 million literacy challenge.

A significant figure in the Civil Rights movement and a historic federal judge, Constance Baker Motley remains largely ...

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The author of a new book that calls for reforming U.S. preservation policies discusses why we need to consider how we ascribe value to buildings, and a climate that’s rapidly changing what we can keep ...

Columbia protesters broke the rules. Now they’re suing the school because they didn’t want to face the consequences. Three ...