WASHINGTON (AP) — In their mostly white school district, Black students routinely heard racial slurs. White classmates hurled insults like “slave,” “monkey” or worse. It often went unpunished.

WASHINGTON — Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation's neediest preschoolers face a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown, leaving ...

More than 550 educators from more than 45 school districts across the region are talking and hearing Saturday about how children learn to read and how best to teach them. "This work is about building ...