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 ...

Racial segregation remains common in US schools, 70 years after federal legislation formally outlawed segregation by race. But previous research has demonstrated that integration can benefit students ...

Childhood exposure to school segregation is associated with worse late-life cognitive outcomes among older Black adults, according to a study published online Jan. 3 in JAMA Network Open. Zhuoer Lin, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report ...

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Massachusetts claims that the state is unlawfully perpetuating racial segregation in schools, resulting in Black and Latino students being concentrated in high-poverty ...

Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...

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When it comes to segregation, most New Jerseyans don’t see a problem: Just 12 percent of voters say the schools where they live are segregated, and just 19 percent say they want more racial diversity ...

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Most New Jersey voters living in nearly all-white towns refuse to admit their schools are mostly white, a new survey of ...