Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will…
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Anti-DEI guidance from Trump administration misinterprets the law and guts educators’ free speech rights
By Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and…
Trump’s Department of Education warns schools to end DEI programs before March 1 or lose funding
WASHINGTON D.C. — Following President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at ending Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, the Department…
Black school officials outraged after man wears gorilla costume with MAGA hat to meeting
PENFIELD, NY — Tensions remain high in an upstate New York suburb after a man wearing a gorilla suit and…
New leader selected for Savannah State University, Georgia’s oldest HBCU
ATLANTA — Savannah State University, the oldest Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in Georgia, may have a new president…
African countries need more PhD graduates but students are held back by a lack of money and support
By Oluwatomilayo Omoya, Flinders University; Olumide A Odeyemi, Flinders University; Omowale A Odeyemi, Obafemi Awolowo University, and Udeme Samuel Jacob,…
The story of one Mississippi county shows how private schools are exacerbating segregation
The scoreboard glowed with the promise of another Friday night football game in Liberty, Mississippi, a small town near the…
Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms
By Philip Ewell, Hunter College Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one…
Segregation academies in Mississippi are benefiting from public dollars, as they did in the 1960s
By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon, ProPublica Series: Segregation Academies: Decades After Desegregation, Private Schools Still Divide More in…
Socioeconomic status explains most of the racial and ethnic achievement gaps in elementary school
By Eric Hengyu Hu, University at Albany, State University of New York and Paul L. Morgan, University at Albany, State…
