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Brookings report shows college-educated immigrants outnumber those without high school diplomas

A Brookings Institute paper released today shows that the share of the immigrant population that has a bachelor’s degree now exceeds the share of the immigrant population that does not have a high-school degree.

Race to the Top fails to redirect stream of bad teachers...

A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed...

Brookings Institute to help ‘New American Heartland’ navigate D.C.

Move over, Iowa. Colorado and its southern Intermountain West neighbors now comprise the “New American Heartland.” That’s according to the Brookings Institute, which argues...