Christine Ayala

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Anthony Tarquin, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at El Paso

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Running Dry.

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday inspires classrooms like sixth-grade teacher Peter Maginot’s to hash out the details of civil rights and race in America, in light of national struggles with race and violence.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Pedro Reyes, the primary investigator for the Texas Education Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be.

Lamar Alexander, the Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate education committee, released a discussion draft of a bill to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Alternative high school models come and go, but Quest Early College High School in Humble ISD has shown that a focus on student support and real-world learning opportunities make for long-term successes.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently highlighted the fact that America’s diverse K-12 classrooms are disproportionately led by white females, despite the fact that students of color now outnumber those who are white.

A new report that analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that 51 percent of public school students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2013, up from 38 percent in 2000.

Despite warnings that such measures would drive up already unmanageable costs, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey recently signed into law a new requirement for all high school students to pass a 100-question civics test before being awarded their diplomas.