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 ...

A new study by University of California San Francisco researchers found that Black students attending racially segregated schools were more likely to drink alcohol and have behavioral problems than ...

School segregation has increased in the last 30 years, especially in the 100 largest districts that enroll about 40 percent of the nation’s K-12 population. While the overall public school population ...

Parents peek in the classroom windows after dropping their children off at Locke Elementary School in Chicago as the city’s schools returned to classrooms on Aug. 22, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Chicago ...

Two reports on the effects of school segregation and how to address them came out Tuesday, almost exactly a year after the state argued that the school system would need to be “rebuilt brick by brick” ...

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 ...

In the last 15 years, students in the nation’s large school districts have become much more isolated racially and economically. A national longitudinal study of schools suggests less court oversight ...

School choice could help to redress past and present wrongs. For poor families, disproportionately black and Latino, public charter, magnet, and state private school scholarship programs offer the ...

A much-anticipated court ruling that was issued Friday said New Jersey had failed to correct the problem of continuing racial segregation in its public schools, exacerbated by the practice of having ...

For 15 years, New Hanover County Schools has used a "neighborhood schools" policy to assign students to the school closest to their home. The policy aims to keep students closer to home and give ...