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Several years after Education Week was launched in the early 1980s, the 30 th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education presented our Opinion section with the first occasion for what has become a ...

Judge William Pryor is likely not accustomed to being praised by civil-rights advocates. The judge is not a liberal lion. A Bush appointee currently sitting on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ...

Are desegregation orders really still in effect more than a half-century after Brown v. Board of Education%3F They remain in place doing little until someone uses them as a tool to push a political ...

The university is celebrating, though black students still reluctant to apply. Jan. 14, 2011— -- On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, while the country remembers the man who gave a powerful voice ...

A new installation outside Dorothy Hamm Middle School tells the story of the four students who integrated the building, formerly Stratford Junior High School, six decades ago. During a dedication ...

FERRIDAY, La. — Even at a glance, the differences are obvious. The walls of Ferriday High School are old and worn, surrounded by barbed wire. Just a few miles away, Vidalia High School is clean and ...

In Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, a federal judge is considering a deal that would end one of the longest-running and most notorious school desegregation cases in the country. The state, its largest ...

May 17: The United States Supreme Court rules unanimously that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Orange County School Superintendent, ...

Court-ordered school integration efforts are rare these days. School desegregation peaked in the late 1980s and federal judges have released hundreds of school districts across the South from ...