Education
The effect of inconsistent teaching may not be obvious until a related issue is thrust into the spotlight like this month's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the resulting backlash against Confederate symbols.
President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and three other Confederate figures from a main area of campus. The removals should be complete by midmorning Monday.
Children who start school at an older age do better than their younger classmates and have better odds of attending college and graduating from an elite institution. That's according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Affairs.
At college campuses, far-right extremist groups have found fertile ground to spread their messages and attract new followers.
The goal of the center is to make higher education institutions a place to take on issues of structural racism, racial hierarchy and white privilege.
Leaders of the east metro school district apologized Thursday for a massive, accidental release of information on some 9,000 students in an email attachment sent to the parents of most district students.
The report calls on St. Paul to hire a marketing and communications director and develop marketing plans for each school.
The event's organizer posted a message online stating, "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M." But the school says that after consulting with law enforcement, it decided to cancel the event.
The Harvard professor and documentary filmmaker explores the question: What would we tell Martin Luther King Jr. if he came back and wanted to know what had happened?
After Arizona banned a Mexican-American studies curriculum in Tucson, Ariz., ethnic studies courses have taken root in districts across the country.
State education officials are using an update in federal law to try to tackle one of education's thorniest problems: how to teach students with limited or no English skills.
The costs of higher education are softening in some places, but experts aren't too excited yet.
This week, Counter Stories takes on the issue of affirmative action.
Statewide proficiency gaps between students of color and white students have widened for every racial group in both reading and math since the state set its 2012 gap-reduction goal.
Real-estate agents, knowingly or not, can sway families' opinions on schools. So, school officials in Pasadena, Calif., decided to ask agents to help build a better district image.
A couple of dozen robots briefly took over the plaza at 3M's Maplewood headquarters Friday, as Minnesota high school robotics teams showed off their machines.
The Department of Education suggests in a legal filing that no one is certified for the program.
State officials are close to changing the measures used to evaluate schools performance. Skeptics warn the plan may end up lowering the bar for school success.
Kids who start school behind in math tend to stay behind. But could early predictors in preschool help educators put them on a path to success?
For new engineers, the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis has become more than a textbook case of design failure. Some colleges are using remnants of the wreckage to hammer home lessons on professional duty.