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COLUMN: Testing abuses, legacy preferences and bad parent behavior all influence who gets into college: What must change?
Seeking a road ahead for equality in higher education
Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations
Like many U.S. colleges, Indiana University Northwest is seeing a sharp rise in Latinx students — but support for them is lagging
Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged? How schools struggle to serve gifted students with disabilities
Parents say it’s often impossible to find schools to educate bright kids who have disabilities. Now some are fighting to change that
Successfully replicating the Meyerhoff STEM scholars program
Study shows two universities have begun to match UMBC’s model of STEM achievement
Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning
How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change
School district secessions gather speed, a new report shows
Wealthy school districts are increasingly splitting from poorer, more diverse ones, accelerating resegregation
Beyond basic reading, kids can learn how to think like a good reader
Making these thinking strategies explicit has helped close achievement gaps between English learners and their peers
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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness
Fledgling state-funded pre-K shows strong signs of success in one southeast town, but nearly two out of three state students are still not ready for kindergarten
Fighting for Mississippi’s struggling 5-year-olds, one student at a time
As access to state pre-K lags, almost one in 10 Mississippi kindergarteners are still held back
How gaps in content knowledge hold students back
The Knowledge Map project helps districts identify content gaps and close them