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All students—regardless of race, national origin, religion, disability, or sex—deserve access to a high-quality education, from preschool through college. 

After a tense summer nationally, and fearing a return of campus protests, college officials call for a peaceful start to the academic year.

Each campus will receive $151,000 in addition to the $75,000 allocated in 2015, according to a UC press release. The money will also help expand Swipe Out Hunger programs, which let students… Read more »

Sometimes breaking down and connecting statistics in a graph tells us things that are easy to miss. For example, this series of graphs published in EducationNext suggests that it should be… Read more »

In an open letter released Wednesday evening, the leaders called for a national HBCU symposium on gun violence and "a commitment to raising the awareness of the debilitating impact of trauma on… Read more »

California’s K-12 students will be learning more about the contributions of the LGBT community in the public-school curriculum as early as this fall. The California Board of Education recently… Read more »

Part of Gov. Nathan Deal’s criminal justice reform plan takes aim at the “school-to-prison pipeline.” “The ultimate criminal justice reform is education reform,” Deal said during a recent… Read more »

For thousands of Minnesota students, surviving the school day isn't as simple as it seems. MPR News host Tom Weber guides a conversation that looks at how undiagnosed mental health issues can… Read more »

U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) began in 2011-2012, by defining “green school” according to three Pillars and recognizing 78 schools. In 2012-2013, ED added a District… Read more »

Local police departments and colleges will need to come together before the turn of the year to finalize guidelines and stipulations for cooperation in dealing with campus sexual assaults.

States scrambling to come up with more nuanced ways to measure school quality under the new federal K-12 law are running smack into an old problem: how to make sure they have the right data.

Tulsa Public Schools moves to punish fewer students with suspensions in the upcoming school year.

For many families, summer passes at a leisurely pace. But not for anxious parents preparing for college drop-off. They feel time hurtling toward that dreaded day in August or September when the… Read more »

At past college freshman summer orientations, Rowan College at Burlington County administrators noticed that a surprising group of people kept showing up: parents.

Last month, the Obama administration moved forward on plans to provide a new wave of Pell grants to fund the college ambitions of 12,000 underserved Americans — those serving time in… Read more »

While some institutions experience a breakdown in relationships when handling highly publicized issues, others move forward with unity. One of the key differences that contributes to how well a… Read more »

Results of a statewide survey of California school kids shows safety has improved and drug use is down. But the report also points out that depression risk remains "disturbingly high" among… Read more »

A homeless teenager found sleeping in a tent outside a Georgia college after biking six hours to get there is receiving an outpouring of help and support from across the country.