Fifty years ago today, James Meredith made his way across the University of Mississippi campus through mobs of enraged whites. His offense? Daring to enroll at the historically white institution. Sadly, the integration Meredith and many others risked their lives for still does not exist in schools in the U.S.

We are once again at a critical turning point for our children and nation. Despite all the harsh lessons of the past and all the lofty rhetoric about who we want and need to be as a 21st century multicultural nation in a multiracial and multicultural world, we’re heading in the wrong direction.

May tends to be the one time of year that the press pays attention to the growing segregation, by race and class, of American public schools, which is why, here in the month of June, I defiantly assert that the issue of school segregation is of pressing concern all year long.

That's the title of David Kirp's opinion piece in this Sunday's New York Times. I'll begin with his punchline: School desegregation has been proven to...

It is time to end this bizarre practice that assumes judges who are competent to decide whether a man lives or dies for his crimes are incompetent to decide whether a school administrator crossed a line in a strip-search.

"Dismal." Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to ass...

As we mark the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, we want to highlight three lessons we have learned from this monumental and hard-fought victory.

In today's America, when it comes to public education, have we allowed our five-digit zip codes to become the equivalent of a lottery ticket to a better future? Is this really who we wish to be?