News Briefs
Backers of a proposed high school in Chicago touted as a haven for gay and bullied youths have pulled their proposal, saying they wanted to spend another year to finalize their plans.
December 1, 2008
For children of Latino immigrants, a school’s environment can play a big role in helping them to catch up academically with non-Hispanic whites, according to a study by a researcher at Columbia University.
November 18, 2008
Latino and black civil rights organizations have joined forces to examine reported racial tensions between students in the Oxnard Union High School District in California.
November 17, 2008
New enrollment data show the number of minority students rapidly rising in Utah public schools.
November 10, 2008
Oregon’s only public all-boys school has failed to attract enough students and will be shut down.
November 10, 2008
The income disparity between Latino and non-Hispanic white students entering four-year colleges and universities has quadrupled over the past three decades, according to a new report.
October 20, 2008
School district leaders urged their colleagues recently to make concrete plans for taking care of students whose parents have been picked up in workplace raids by federal immigration agents.
November 4, 2008
Immigration enforcement requires urban educators to prepare to help students whose parents are detained, panel members say.
October 27, 2008
After complaints from the states, federal officials offer more flexible guidelines on a section of the NCLB Act applying to English-language learners.
October 17, 2008
The Minneapolis school board and the local African-American community have signed a “covenant” that places responsibility for improving schooling for black children on the shoulders of parents and district leaders.
September 23, 2008
"Perhaps we can eliminate the most persistent of our achievement gaps by introducing Latin into failing schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students," says Baynard Woods.
September 22, 2008
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