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 ...

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 ...

A 1976 court order to desegregate Milwaukee Public Schools led to initial progress that has since faded. Many Milwaukee schools remain racially segregated, with achievement gaps persisting between ...

Federal judge orders Mississippi school district to end policies. WASHINGTON, April 14, 2010— -- A federal judge in Mississippi has ordered a school district in the state to change school ...

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 ...

Plaintiffs have asked for remedies to the current system, which assigns children to school districts based on their neighborhood and ZIP code. Mediation talks have failed to reach a solution to a ...

In a recent column, educator Sierra Bush Rester claims that school choice, whether in the form of private vouchers or public charter schools, is “rooted in segregationist policy.” Her own arguments, ...

It’s time to stop “economic segregation” in Nevada’s public school system. Students from families at or below the poverty line, and those living in rural areas — white, Black, Brown, students of all ...

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 ...

By threatening public schools with diversity initiatives, promoting “school choice,” attacking efforts to make school discipline less racist and doing whatever he can to dismantle the Department of ...