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When Donald Trump set out to pick the next education secretary, he faced a stark choice. He could choose an insider who had shaped education policy for a state or large school district. Or he could bring in an outsider — someone who views traditional...

Although it has been more than 60 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision establishing that separate schools for white students and black students are not equal, schools in the U.S. remain very economically and racially...

More than six decades after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, increasing numbers of black children in the U.S. attend what researchers call “apartheid schools” where students of color comprise more than 99 percent of the population. Such schools...

Click here for reuse options! What used to be a trip to the principal's office has become a trip to jail. It had been a difficult summer for Darian (not his real name). The 14-year-old had recently lost his father to a gun homicide. He had grown sullen...

This is the first part in a three-part series on the 2016 election. The series will cover education, reproductive rights, and LGBTQ rights. President-elect Donald Trump has selected Betsy DeVos to be his Secretary of Education. Few outside the conservative...