Today, the first-ever court hearing over sex-segregated classes in coed public schools begins in a federal court in Lafayette, Louisiana. In August 2009, the parents of students of the Rene A. Rost ...

Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. As a professor of education and demography at Penn ...

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

Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are ...

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Between 1917 and 1932, Julius Rosenwald, once president of Sears Roebuck and Co., began building schools for Black students in the south. Rosenwald was a German-Jewish immigrant. He understood that a ...

FILE - Another day begins on the yellow bus, as children peer through fogged-over windows on their way to school in Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 5, 2018. Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v.

Metro Atlanta is rightfully known for its rich diversity, but a closer look reveals a difficult truth: This is one of the most segregated regions in the United States. It may not be obvious when you ...

TRAVNIK, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The school in this medieval town is divided by a flimsy metal fence and the legacy of war. Each day, children stream into the same school building, only to study ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Erica Frankenberg, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Brown vs. Board of Education, the ...