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 ...

A group of Middletown parents are asking New Jersey's top education official to overturn a decision to close schools in their ...

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 ...

If it weren’t for a box Roberto Alvarez Jr.’s family kept for decades, San Diegans might know a lot less about a pivotal ...

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...