Topic: Race Relations in Schools

Like it or not, the hard truth is that America has a long history of discrimination against people of color and women, who have systemically been denied access to voting…

From about 1925-1961, Nannie Helen Burroughs, an educator and activist who started her own school in Washington, DC, required her students to take both an oral and written Black history…

Amid the fierce debate surrounding what should and should not be taught in classrooms, some far-right-leaning lawmakers have introduced legislation and taken significant steps to limit educators’ ability to discuss…

Pulitzer Prize winner and intellectual icon Toni Morrison has received national attention that has forced students to fight for the right to high-quality education. A rash of bills pushing against…

In another attempt to silence the history and experience of Black and Brown communities and coddle White guilt, certain factions are engaging in a political culture war — with the…

Amid the debate surrounding so-called Critical Race Theory (CRT), Republican lawmakers in 37 states have introduced legislation or taken significant steps to limit an educator’s ability to discuss race and…

Twenty years ago this month, federal law began requiring schools to report the academic achievement of students, not only overall but by student groups. The data required by the 2001…