Whether it’s black-and-white photos of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine or Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of New Orleans schoolgirl Ruby Bridges, images of school desegregation often make it seem as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...

Washington, D.C. school officials pushed back against a report published by the University of California Los Angeles Civil Rights Project claiming the city’s public and charter schools are among the ...

Today marks the anniversary of one of the great turning points in American History. Fifty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated desegregation in the case of (Linda) Brown v.

As a girl in Kansas, Linda Brown’s father tried to enroll her in an all-white school in Topeka. He and several black families were turned away, sparking the Brown v. Board of Education case that ...

New sociological research finds that school segregation continues to widen racial achievement gaps among Black, Hispanic, and White students in US public schools. Analyzing standardized test scores ...

North Carolina's countywide school district model can be a controversial one. But experts say it's one of the forces keeping school segregation in the state from worsening. There are 115 public school ...

New York state’s traditional public schools are the most segregated in the nation, with children of color often shut out of ...

Pardon this fallback to May when world-renowned music artist Adam Blackstone visited Trenton, his birthplace. Blackstone made numerous stops in the city, including Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School ...

Segregation in public schools has been illegal for 70 years, but demographics in schools still don’t always reflect those of their district or county. We analyzed data from the National Center for ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

I read with interest David Kirkland’s defense of New York City’s school diversity plan. As Professor Kirkland suggests, it is easier to talk about school segregation than to do something concrete ...