Segregation

Damian Lopez, 4, gives Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boabserg a high-five as he arrives for the first day of school at Escalante-Biggs Academy on August 20, 2018 in Denver, Colorado.

COLUMN: Take a closer look at those back-to-school photos: Is something missing?

School photos provide a snapshot of segregated schools from across the country

Divided We Learn

by  Liz Willen  – September 7, 2018

Students sue New York City, saying black and Latino athletes have fewer sports opportunities

Many small schools have no sports teams at all

High School Reform

by  Karina Hernandez  – August 28, 2018

race and college admission

Facts about race and college admission

Political winds may shift, but racial factors in college success statistics don’t

Divided We Learn

by  Jon Marcus  – July 6, 2018

High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students "before it's too late," but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.
The Martin Luther King Bridge, top, and Eads Bridge, bottom, connect East St. Louis with downtown St. Louis. Little of the economic boom that has transformed St. Louis has made it across the river.

Will turning schools into hubs for services help revive dying cities?

In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet

Race and Equity

by  Emmanuel Felton  – June 26, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy is expanding. A new high school facility is under construction.

Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

Loose laws let scores of charters create policies that favor white students

Race and Equity

by  Emmanuel Felton  – June 17, 2018

Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

COLUMN: Any educational reform that ignores segregation is doomed to failure

A new report finds that such reforms only placate white people, don't bring equity

Early Education

by  Andre Perry  – May 15, 2018

A sculpture by artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, part of the Nkyinkyim Installation, of enslaved people in chains is shown after entering The National Memorial for Peace and Justice on April 20, 2018 in Montgomery, Al.

COLUMN: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a lesson students sorely need

Our history books don’t do enough to teach us America's dark past of lynching at the hands of white terrorists

Race and Equity

by  Andre Perry  – May 8, 2018

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COLUMN: Segregation incarnated in brick and mortar

Where charter schools are built shows our commitment to integration

Race and Equity

by  Andre Perry  – April 24, 2018

Students at Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., one of the first schools to desegregate after Brown. (Library of Congress)

OPINION: Six decades later, Brown v. Board of Education ruling is still only an aspiration

Integration ties the fate of poor, minority students to the white, privileged children who won’t get left behind

Early Education

by  Kimberly Manns  – April 19, 2018

A stained glass window depicts the University Greys, a group of Ole Miss students who left school to fight in the Confederate Army. They suffered 100 percent casualties.

A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

Ole Miss puts plaques acknowledging injustices committed by slave-owning ‘heroes’ near buildings named for confederate leaders, but students want more

Divided We Learn

by  Delece Smith-Barrow  – March 7, 2018

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