Portland Public Schools has long struggled to improve student achievement among its most marginalized students. The topic recently came up ahead of the School Board’s Jan. 7 meeting to refer a $1.83 ...

When Forest Rose Walker was growing up in Buckland, a small icebound town of 500 near Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, she was put in the corner for being a good student. “In high school, my brother, ...

American Indians and Native Alaskans face a “disproportionate burden” of oral health disease in the U.S. from childhood onward, a crisis with roots in structural racism and exacerbated by lack of ...