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More than 1 million public school students experienced homelessness in the 2016-2017 school year. Those students are less likely to finish high school, but one Illinois teenager beat the odds.

Nashville's public schools are adding Kurdish to its list of world languages available for high school credit. The city has more Kurds than any other in the country. Like in other schools across the U.S., supporters say this type of…

The restaurant’s contest to pay off student loans is the latest offer to treat the idea of debt relief as a sweepstakes that only a lucky few can win.

The company that makes the annual Best Colleges rankings said that the University of Oklahoma gave "inflated" data on its alumni giving rates for two decades. U.S. News & World Report, which produces the coveted Best Colleges rankings, said Oklahoma…

Code talker and New Mexico's longest-serving member of the state senate, John Pinto, has passed away. Pinto served as a Democratic member of the senate since 1977 representing the 3rd district which includes the Navajo Nation and much of San…

Aidan Wen is well on his way toward a career in artificial intelligence. The high school junior already has two semesters of machine-learning courses under his belt. Last summer he competed for a $12,000 prize sponsored by the Radiological Society…

The twins wanted to play make-believe with their nanny. They love to pretend they’re unicorns or detectives working a case. But on a recent day, Sam and Ella Bardwell, North Quincy first-graders, wanted to play something different, something they had…

Lawmakers are poised to delay implementation of Act 173, a massive overhaul of the state’s special education system passed just last year. A panel tasked by the Legislature with advising the state about the law’s rollout came to the Statehouse…

While the good news is that the student-to-counselor ratio has reached its lowest margin in three decades, 455-to-1 for the 2016-2017 school year, the bad news is that it's still way above the recommended ratio of 250 students for each…

Aneesah can still see the flag in her fourth-grade classroom. "It's how they taught us to be American," she says, "by saying the Pledge of Allegiance." But Aneesah says she didn't feel very American – or very accepted – in…

Colorado law will soon require students who receive sexual education to learn about consent in school. But the road to passing that bill was bumpy. The final legislation was heavily amended and passed in the last two days of the…

Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti was driving through the city early one Sunday morning when the sight of church vans picking up members to take them to services gave him an idea for combating absenteeism in the district. The vans, he…

A “Madam Secretary” actor, a former New York Yankee and a rapper are joining forces — teaming up to advocate for music education funding on Capitol Hill. “Music education really, really changed my life,” Erich Bergen, who stars as Blake…

Wisconsin Assembly Republicans are looking to raise investments in K-12 education by about $500 million over the next two years, about one-third of the $1.4 billion Gov. Tony Evers has proposed. The plan GOP lawmakers unveiled Wednesday also includes the…

NaTasha Montoya nearly gave up on working in the classroom. She spent five years as an elementary paraprofessional who also coached junior high girls basketball and worked an after-school tutoring gig, and she still only earned $19,000 a year —…