During Gayathri Ramkumar’s favorite lesson — a sort of mathematical guessing game — she’ll hear her students asking their partners things like, “Can you tell me the degree of the polynomial?” Not only ...

Not many teachers at Elsie Allen High School can connect with students in the same way. While 80 percent of students are Latino, just two of 56 teachers are — 3.5 percent.

Diverse, School, Education, Opportunity, Families, Private, Charter, At-Home, ... is less important than the overarching goal of providing high-quality education for all students.

Many high school students are usually preoccupied with fitting in and keeping their heads above never-ending tests and due dates. But Machayla Randall, a high school senior in New Jersey, is more ...

Each high school recognized as 2015 Schools of Opportunity has supported and challenged its students — many of them at-risk — and its teachers, but each story is unique.

These students reported much higher levels of self-efficacy and class engagement in an elementary school survey and were 9% less likely to be chronically absent once they got to high school.” ...

A new report from Excelencia in Education, which advocates higher educational achievement for Latinos, dispels the perception that most Latino students are English-language learners.

Diversity on full display at Morristown High School 08:53. MORRISTOWN, N.J. --Morristown High School serves a diverse population of more than 1,900 students.Roughly half are Spanish speaking, and ...

Students walk out of Brashear High School 02:11. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Dozens of Brashear High School students walked out of class Thursday morning. They were protesting a lack of diversity and ...

Over the last 19 years, Beaverton schools have become more diverse, with students of color now making up 53% of the student body. In 2000, they were 26%. What's it like growing up Latino in Beaverton?

Gayathri Ramkumar, a teacher at Aurora Central High School, aims to get students talking about math. Her lessons combine ...