he saying, “college isn’t for everybody,” is popular in American society. It often highlights alternative career paths like trade schools, certifications, and mentorship programs. But, this phrase can ...

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black, which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report ...

Seventy years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregating students by race violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. Credit: UPI/Bettmann via ...

Black educators are sounding the alarm as President Trump ramps up talk of eliminating the Department of Education. Trump, who has long called for the Education Department to be shut down, said in the ...

During the early 1980s, Jawanza Kunjufu, an African American educational consultant, mentor and author, emerged as one of the first educators to take aim at Black male achievement, addressing the ...

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis NAACP is asking the federal government to help mitigate the “literacy crisis” Black students are facing in the classroom. The organization filed a federal civil rights ...

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Congressional Democrats are at risk of shedding a critical voting bloc in swing states: Black and Hispanic voters who say their concerns about improving public education and increasing access to ...

Children and adults read outside the barracks of Freedman's Village, Arlington, VA, in 1862. The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on ...

Social work professors call out ‘whitelash’ in classrooms pushing anti-racism lessons Two social work scholars argue that their “anti-racist education” efforts in the classroom faced “whitelash” from ...

Benjamin Chrisinger received funding from the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund and Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Fueled by the Supreme ...