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In an area where less than 15% of adults have a B.A., Alabama tries free community college

Gentler language accompanies renewed commitment to teacher quality

Short of workers, some give them what they need to pay for school: jobs.

Maria Malik will be going to Princeton University in the fall on a full scholarship. Photo: Meredith Kolodner When Maria Malik found out she had been accepted to Princeton University with a full scholarship, she didn’t know if she would be allowed to go. The eldest of six children in an observant Pakistani Muslim family, […]

As a high school diploma increasingly becomes the pre-requisite to landing a well-paying job, a report released last week shows rising graduation rates, but pockets of persistent inequality. A record 81.4 percent of American students graduated from high school in 2013, according to the 2015 Building a Grad Nation report. The achievement gaps by income, […]

Claire Sylvan is the executive director of the International Network for Public Schools, which has a high graduation rate for new immigrants. Students at the International Network for Public Schools come from 119 countries and speak 93 different languages. About 90 percent of them live in low-income households, 70 percent have been separated from a […]

Teachers College Professor Tom Bailey answers our questions, explaining what “cafeteria colleges” are, why they’re bad and weighing in on Obama’s plan to make community college free

Why aren’t traditional school discipline policies working?

NEW YORK — Nurul Ali was less than half way through the science portion of the new high school equivalency exam last fall when he closed his testing booklet in frustration. After a year of preparation, he didn’t recognize most of the topics. “I thought, if I read any more of these questions I’ll go […]