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Parents of children trying to get into college have long used their wealth to try to sway admissions officers. But that doesn’t always work.

It’s too early to tell how or when the SAT will change, but the College Board’s new president has criticized the vocabulary and writing section in the past.

The District must be more urgent and creative about tackling its rampant truancy problem, D.C. Council members said Thursday, pointing out that its efforts thus far have reached only a fraction of chronically absent students.

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Four apostrophes are missing from these sentences. Where should they go?

Deborah S. Delisle, the Education Department's point person on K-12 issues, talks policy in a far-ranging interview.

The list of colleges and universities dropping the admissions requirement of standardized test scores continues to extend each year.

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Now that we know that the SAT is going to be redesigned, let's look at some of the common myths that still prevail about the college admissions test, despite volumes of research to the contrary.

These were written by Bob Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, or FairTest, a nonprofit organization dedicated to stopping the misuse of standardized tests.

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How did Donnie Collins’s fraternity brothers raise money to cover the cost of his top surgery, a procedure that is part of a female-to-male transgender transition?

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Concerns that members of the Board of Regents are micromanaging schools in the University of Texas System are leading lawmakers to take action.

This word has appeared in seven New York Times articles in the past year.

A high school named after Jonathan M. Levin, a dedicated teacher killed by a former student, has had changes in its student body, and it is expected to be closed.

The State University of New York released a music video as part of its effort to attract applicants, but not everyone was a fan.

State budget writers on Thursday approved a $1.4 billion increase for public education in the first clear signal that the new Legislature may pour money back into public schools.