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Upcoming PBS documentary takes a look at one of the only all-black schools in the 1800s...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum that amends or…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Critics, including the president of the NAACP, a former U.S. education secretary and the committee that…
VIDEO - Sheri Lynn Davis, the Houston teacher caught on tape beating a 13-year-old student, is now facing unemployment, criminal…
OPINION - By removing ethnic studies, Arizona spits in the face of the civil rights legacy, and tells people of…
PHOENIX (AP) - State schools chief Tom Horne said the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students they…
From The Philadelphia Inquirer - They didn't plan it this way, but life events brought all three - grandmother, mother,…
VIDEO - For some black students, attending elite private schools can mean walking a delicate line between home life and…
OPINION - We cannot expect the status quo--which got us to this horrible place--to close the achievement gap and get…
OPINION - A fitting tribute for Height would be for all of us in the black community to recommit to…
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) - Walkouts, organized on Facebook, were reported in southern and central New Jersey, with more planned…
VIDEO - The financial meltdown has dealt a painful blow to our nation's schools, and in the coming months, drastic…
VIDEO - African-Americans remain one of the most adversely affected cultural groups in society, especially compared to their white counterparts...
While budgets need to be balanced, this tendency to cut schools in order to reduce budget deficits creates a concerning…
ATLANTA (AP) - Spelman College will use a $1 million grant to increase the number of engineers who are black…
OPINION - True accountability can only emerge when states receive the funds they need to educate young people and not…
VIDEO - Only 11 percent of students in the first generation of their families to graduate college successfully complete school,…