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School segregation is on the rise 65 years after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, according to the co-author of a new report. At the time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. It’s been 50 years since Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, and school segregation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...