Through propensity score analysis, we examine the effect of living in a segregated area on the development of neonatal IVH, stratified by maternal race.

This phase IIb randomized controlled trial demonstrates greater efficacy of phenobarbital than levetiracetam in the treatment of neonatal seizures; more adverse events occurred with phenobarbital.

South Africa faces "social disaster" if people allow financial pressure to interfere with their savings goals, an expert warns.

A local web developer has set the cat among the pigeons after taking unusual steps to extract payment from a client.

Cases where a listed company's tax position is unclear because of a dispute with the taxman or legal uncertainty have been in the spotlight.

Defender Sergio Ramos reckons Bilbao will be party central at UEFA EURO 2020.

Education Week's BookMarks blog is back! The authors may be different, but the heart of the blog remains the same.

Even in this extraordinary #MeToo era, ordinary women who've experienced harassment or assault at work are often reluctant to share their stories publicly. Arianna Prothero found that to be just as true as she reported on sexual harassment and assaults in schools and other K-12 workplaces.

Schools can't even afford to hire enough teachers, so why are we surprised that teachers are turning to a website for resources? asks Kat Tipton.

Nearly half of all Mzansi accounts, created in 2004 as a means of having more people bank, are dormant but SA’s top banks won’t abandon the system.

Experts have condemned new taxation proposals on interest income.

What sort of investment product should investors be looking at: a passively managed index tracker, such as an ETF, or an actively managed unit trust fund?

ETFs invite controversy because the products are cheaper.

A sex worker in Kazakhstan finds freedom in Christ.

An OM couple shares their lives, their faith and their professional skills with unreached people in Central Asia.

OM Chile team member Marloes Achterveld witnesses God change the life of a homeless man.

Jessie Stein tells the story of God's faithfulness in the midst of learning a foreign language and the struggles of a broken family.

Achievement gaps in math between Latino students and their white counterparts set in before kindergarten, says a new report by Child Trends' Hispanic Institute.

White teachers are generally less optimistic about their black students' chances of obtaining a four-year degree than black teachers—and those lowered expectations could become "self-fulfilling prophecies" when students internalize them or when teachers change their approach to students as a result,

A recent blog post by Walt Gardner ("The Hard Truth About the Achievement Gap," placed the blame for the achievement gap on one group above others: parents.

The non-marital birth rate to women age 24 and under was 71 percent in 2017. Here's what that means for educational outcomes and schools, according to guest blogger Ian Rowe.

Researcher Robin Anderson shares what happened when one online community of teachers tried to unlearn their deficit mindsets together.

Students of color don't need to get "grittier," writes New America's Jenny Muñiz. They need us to fix institutional racism.

In a national survey, we dug into how teachers use language to make sense of disparities in student outcomes by race and income level.

Flipped classrooms have been getting attention as a way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but a new study cautions that the model could trade short-term gains for wider achievement gaps.

Does a student have a fixed or a growth mindset? That's the wrong question for us to measure, argues researcher Dave Paunesku.

In 50 years, the achievement gap has been unchanged, with the poorest 10 percent of students performing three to four years behind the wealthiest 10 percent of peers, finds a new study in the journal Education Next.

As black-white achievement gaps widen in schools, so, too, do disparities in discipline rates between black and white students, according to a study published Wednesday of 2,000 schools.

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.

A new analysis finds that high-poverty schools are the least effective. But why those schools stifle achievement is harder to figure out.

Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.

Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.

Teachers and parents need to work on communication with one another, two recent studies suggest, and that may be especially true when immigrant students or students of color are involved.

A new study found that students who received teacher home visits did better on state tests and had better attendance records than students whose homes were not visited.

A new study shows that teachers with negative parental interactions are more likely to have such experiences. How can teachers deal with parental harassment?

Learning how to listen and act with empathy is radically different from assuming traditional roles of teachers as experts, John M. Holland writes.

Teacher Adrianne G. Williams cultivates an environment where she focuses on students' interpersonal qualities as well as their academic ones. The students see her effort, she says, and the parents follow.

A study by RTI International and Johns Hopkins University found evidence that teachers' assumptions and biases about their students' families can change after visiting their homes.

Partnering with parents can help students of any age who have trouble with social or mental health issues. But the devil is in the details, finds an analysis of more than 100 studies.

Students whose teachers viewed their parents as less engaged in their schooling had lower grade point averages and were less likely to be recommended for advanced courses, according to a new study.

The Delaware Department of Justice has filed suit against the developer of The Villages of Noble’s Pond, an 879-lot “55-plus” community in Kent County, for numerous violations of the Consumer Fraud Act, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and other Delaware laws protecting consumers against unlawful and predatory behavior. Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced the filing […]

$600 million settlement over 2017 Equifax data breach includes up to $425 million in consumer restitution Attorney General Kathy Jennings Monday announced a settlement with Equifax as the result of an investigation into the largest-ever breach of consumer data. Under the terms of the settlement, Equifax agreed to provide a single Consumer Restitution Fund of […]