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The right text or email message can help students get enrolled, find the right payment plan and remind them to pay, White House research shows.

A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them.

State health officials suspect California's big measles outbreak last year helped persuade parents to get their kids immunized against other illnesses, too.

To economists, the phrase means job seekers roughly equal job openings. Unemployment is at 5 percent, but depending on where you live, your race or your education level, you still might not find work.

Pokemon Go has become a smartphone gaming sensation, generating $1.6 million in daily revenue by one estimate and boosting the market value of Nintendo. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to writer Glen Weldon about the hit game and the playing experience.

Producers and consumers in southwestern Alaska see one upside to climate change. It's now possible to farm in parts of the tundra where agriculture was unheard of just a few years ago.

It's well past Oktoberfest season proper, but some communities in northern Illinois were still celebrating last weekend.In Germany, the time period for…

An estimate from the Wisconsin Legislature's nonpartisan budget office found that the state wouldn't break even on incentives for the Taiwanese tech company until 2043.

One day after a major earthquake hit the island, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens missing, another sizable temblor rattled rescue workers who were seeking survivors in amid the rubble.

Now that the Senate has passed its own version of a tax bill, lawmakers have to iron out differences with the House bill. The final product could then be sent to the president to be signed into law.