One student is going viral online for spicing things up at a graduation ceremony with an impromptu dance with her teacher.

The ceremony, attended by thousands of people, came as the university takes the lead on defying the White House in federal court to defend higher education. This is a photo gallery curated by AP ...

For instance, Black students who have at least one Black teacher in elementary school are 13% more likely to graduate from high school and 19% more likely to enter college. These percentages ...

Sasha Fletcher, a Black English teacher at West Brooklyn, came to her current job after working at three schools with white principals—and often feeling like she didn't get the support she needed.

Their data from the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years found that 89% of the gap between Black and white teachers in observation scores was due to differences in school characteristics, such as ...

America’s education system is facing a critical challenge — not just from teacher shortages, plummeting test scores or funding cuts, but from a deeper, systemic issue: the severe ...

It was within these very walls that he developed his groundbreaking style, photographing cultural icons like Charles White and ... of the first five Black folks to ever graduate from West Point.

“I can recall white parents making comments saying, ‘Oh, this young Black teacher who doesn’t have children herself – how is she supposed to teach my child?” she said. “And I’m ...

Black teachers owe an average of $43,000 more in college debt than white graduates 12 years after graduation, according to the Learning Policy Institute, a nonprofit education research organization.

Programs or interventions that include these factors can improve retention and graduation rates for aspiring Black male teachers in higher education. Call Me MiSTER: Clemson University The Call Me ...

Growing up in rural Louisiana, having a Black male teacher was like winning the scratch ... and support were instrumental in my high school graduation and my decision to pursue a career in education.