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Music and arts classes are often first on the chopping block when schools...

A college degree has long been touted as the great equalizer in our country,...

If one of your parents majored in a STEM (science, technology, engineering...

A new Portland State study challenges the idea that youth with cognitive...

Mass incarceration is as much an environmental problem as it is a social...

School districts across the U.S. are increasingly using student test scores...

Whether or not a patient receives pain treatment when seeking emergency medical services may depend, in part, on their race or ethnicity, according to a new study by Portland State researchers. The study was published in the journal Medical Care and was led by PSU Sociology PhD student Jamie...

A new Portland State University study suggests that the disproportionate placement of racial minorities into special education for learning disabilities is largely because of social inequities outside of schools rather than racially biased educators. Some attribute the overplacement to...

The odds of an infant dying before their first birthday are higher in counties with greater proportions of conservative Protestants, especially fundamentalists, than in counties with more mainline Protestants and Catholics, according to a new Portland State University study. ...

It's rare for men who get married to change their last names — whether they take their wife's, adopt a hyphenated version or create a combination of the two. But those that do tend to be less educated, according to a new Portland State University study. ...

Weeks after Portland and Multnomah County committed to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, six teams of PSU researchers and city representatives reported on their own efforts to reduce carbon emissions and prepare for climate change at the 2017 Portland Climate Action...