What’s at stake when Americans lose faith in the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
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An analysis shows that Black students at more racially segregated schools have a greater tendency to turn to the bottle.
The effort to give every student equal access to an education has lasted decades and may need even more time before the goal is reached.
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Though the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling required the integration of public education, US schools remain separated by race.
Lawmakers in the US Senate are set to vote on a bill that would enshrine abortion into law. But is there a route to legislation?
President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to act over abortion rights following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But is there a route to legislation?
In the early 1960s, the McDonogh 19 school was the site of fierce opposition to racial integration. The building is now owned by one of the Black girls who first integrated the school.
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts, two legal scholars maintain.
Brown v. Board didn’t overrule ‘separate-but-equal’ but it had that end. A law scholar explains how there is a lesson there for conservatives on today’s Court looking to end abortion in the US.
Despite a historically diverse high court, its voting rules often fail to include minority viewpoints. That could be avoided if justices decided their cases by unanimous vote.
Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
The Supreme Court is a leading player in enacting policy in the US. But it has no army to enforce its decisions; its authority rests solely on its legitimacy.
Two scholars of inclusive education explain how segregated Black schools advocated for Black children in a way that’s often missing from today’s desegregated classrooms.
A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
Is the public education that Ruby Bridges fought to integrate a relic of the past?
Instilling a positive sense of ethnic and racial identity and belonging can help children learn.
Concerns over how to make schools safe amid the coronavirus remain. But for many low-income students of color, old buildings in need of repair already presented a heath risk.
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
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Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor of Education, Stockton University
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Associate Professor Emeritus of Education, Rowan University
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Dean, USC Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
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Professor of Leadership, Counselor Education, Human and Organizational Development; Executive director, Call Me MISTER, Clemson University
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights and Social Change, Brandeis University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
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Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
