Desegregation
Read more about efforts to reduce racial isolation in schools, including by courts, agencies, and districts
Equity & Diversity
An Expansive Look at School Segregation Shows It's Getting Worse
Most of the increases have come within the nation's 100 largest districts.
Equity & Diversity
Q&A
Racist Bomb Threats and Post-Civil War School Burnings: A Scholar Connects the Dots
Hundreds of Black schools built during Reconstruction were burned, but racist violence against schools is hardly a historical footnote.
Equity & Diversity
Could School Resegregation Drive White Students to Become Democrats as Adults?
A researcher tracked the political affiliation of adults who graduated from high schools where court-ordered desegregation was lifted.
Law & Courts
Decades-Old Desegregation Case Drawing to a Close in Tucson, Ariz.
After more than 40 years, the Tucson Unified School District is being released from court oversight for its decades-old desegregation case.
Federal
Schools Could See U-Turn on Civil Rights Under Biden
Activists expect to see renewed guidance, more active enforcement, and better data collection from the Ed. Department’s civil rights office.
Equity & Diversity
Despite Push, Few Schools Have Dropped Confederate Names
An Education Week analysis shows that 5 percent of the nation's Confederate-named schools have been renamed since June.
Equity & Diversity
Reported Essay
Do America's Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?
School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?
Big Ideas in Education
Special Report
Big Ideas for Confronting Racism in Education
There’s no single solution for combating anti-Black racism in schools. That’s why we filled an entire special report on the subject.
Federal
Opinion
Kamala Harris Has a Chance to Make School Desegregation a Key Issue
The vice presidential candidate was bused to school as child. Her experience could inform national education policy, writes Jonathan E. Collins.
School & District Management
Race and Schools Are at the Core of Trump's 'Suburban Lifestyle Dream'
The president’s supposed suburban ideal draws attention to the ongoing debate about how housing and schools are inextricably linked. What does the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” have to do with education?
Equity & Diversity
Briefly Stated
Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed
Tennessee Voucher Law Ruled Unconstitutional; Gov. Shifts Strategies
Equity & Diversity
Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study
When schools reduce racial segregation between schools, racial isolation within the classes inside those schools goes up, according to an analysis of 20 years of North Carolina data.
Equity & Diversity
White Parents Say They Value Integrated Schools. Their Actions Speak Differently
A pair of new studies find that, when given a choice, white parents tend to send their children to schools that are predominantly white.
Equity & Diversity
Letter to the Editor
Whitesplaining Segregation
To the Editor:
I was shocked to read the article concerning so-called controversy surrounding mere usage of the term "racial segregation" as it relates to public education ("It's One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean?" Big Ideas in Education special report, Jan. 8, 2020). There is no area of life within the thoroughly racist, white-supremacist-based U.S. nation-state in which racial segregation is more pronounced and objectively more obvious than in the arena of public education.
I was shocked to read the article concerning so-called controversy surrounding mere usage of the term "racial segregation" as it relates to public education ("It's One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean?" Big Ideas in Education special report, Jan. 8, 2020). There is no area of life within the thoroughly racist, white-supremacist-based U.S. nation-state in which racial segregation is more pronounced and objectively more obvious than in the arena of public education.