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 ...

Sixty years ago, nine teens braved violent protests to attend school after the supreme court outlawed segregation – but racial separation is not over in the US ...

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 reshaped Milwaukee schools, but segregation has endured. Fifty years later, leaders reflect on its legacy and the future of MPS.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...