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Academic merit has been remarkably absent from the recent debates over college admissions.

Public schools are often supported by local funding. What happens when that funding is eliminated? Some states, like Texas, Colorado & Pennsylvania, are trying new ideas.

State officials and others point to its grade retention and early literacy law as a key to boosting reading scores. But the reason for students’ success may not be so clear.

Only 14 percent of students say they read for fun every day.

Assuming that minority children need racial preferences declares being black or Hispanic a handicap. It's also liberal racism.

Amid reports of plummeting test scores, new research finds that the percentage of students who report that they read for fun has reached a record low, according to an assessment released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). 

Moms for Liberty challenges the teachers' unions' grip on school boards, threatening the huge streams of wealth that flow to the Democrats.

The new museum opened at a time when the teaching of Black history is under attack by conservative politicians.

The latest “appalling” scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and math “highlight long-term trends that extend back to the 1970s,” observes Larry Sand at City Journal.

Spencer Russell, award-winning educator and founder of Toddlers CAN Read, says that parents are the key to narrowing academic gaps within a broken system.