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 ...

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 ...

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools. The message of Brown v. Board of Education was clear. But 70 years later, the impact ...

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