News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...

Improving kids' education is vital to the future of the city, mayoral candidates agree. But how involved should city leaders ...

Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug at the curious phenomenon at Long Island's Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy ...

In breaking news this week, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus finally finished his authorized biography ...

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As we approach the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a crucial question arises: Why are our nation’s schools experiencing increased segregation despite progress in neighborhood ...

While the courts’ lifting of desegregation orders played a role, the researchers’ analysis reveals that segregation would be approximately 14% lower if not for the expansion of charter schools.

The researchers estimate that school segregation would have increased by about 20 percent less if those court orders had remained in place, per the Washington Post’s Laura Meckler.

Though school segregation in most school districts is much lower than it was 60 years ago, it’s higher than it was 30 years ago. And today’s divisions are enough to concentrate Black and ...

He was Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1946. ... But Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who was inclined to uphold segregation in public schools based on the precedent established by Plessy v.

For a time, it looked like a civil rights success, but the documentary illustrates the many ways that new forms of segregation in public schools were created. By Felicia Feaster ...