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Education Department Expands Title IX Investigations, Bringing Total to 60 Colleges

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights said Wednesday that it has opened investigations into the sexual violence policies at five more...

A High-School Diploma is Pretty Much Useless These Days

When it comes to making money, college graduates have a huge and growing advantage over high-school graduates -- but that's mainly because the value...

First Lady Set to Respond to School Meal Critics

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama is answering Republicans in Congress who want to roll back healthier school meal standards, holding an event...

Teen Publishes Two Books Before Finishing 8th Grade

Writing a book is no small feat at any age. But one Brooklyn teen has completely exceeded the expectations of any author, despite her...

Twenty-year-old Chicago man to pursue Ph.D. at Harvard

Octavious Talbot spent most of his teenage years in an overcrowded Southeast Chicago home, he said, but his life drastically changed when he was...

Job Market Discriminates Against Black College Grads

While it's tough out there for all recent college grads, a new study finds that African-Americans face a particularly difficult situation when it comes...

60 Years After Brown V. Board of Education, Mostly White Reformers Try to 'Fix' the Civil Rights Issue

Sixty years ago, the plight of Linda Brown, a third-grader who had to travel a mile by bus to her segregated black school even...

Next Phase of Enhanced Student Loan Forgiveness, Pay as You Earn

If you signed and sealed federal student loan documents, take another look at your obligation to pay. You may walk away and leave your...

How School Closures Across the Country are Failing Black & Latino Children

In some of the country's largest cities, public school closures have become a familiar occurrence -- a phenomenon some community groups have blasted as...

School Segregation Across the Country Proves Students are Still Separate

While many of the major gains in the South since the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education have been reversed in...
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