For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The ...

The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff ...

Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered ...

Four Minneapolis police trainers were accused of using excessive force in civil lawsuits the city settled before they received their current assignments, according to a review of federal court ...

Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — ...

Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — ...

The school reform program, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it ...

Horace Mann famously called public education, "the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social machinery." No matter where you come from, the thinking goes, your local ...

Estimating the number of human trafficking victims in the United States is notoriously difficult. "It is not that we haven't tried," said Amy Farrell, a criminologist at Northeastern University and ...