By Stacey Patton
When school begins this Wednesday, 267 of Biloxi’s top-performing elementary students will be attending a new school less than a mile down the road. But some parents and city residents feel that move will threaten the student’s continued high scholastic achievement.

By The Editors
Josh Civin, an Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, delivered the oral argument supporting the University’s race-conscious admissions plan on behalf of LDF and the Black Student Alliance at UT Austin.

By John Payton
John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., was invited to speak this week on the state of elementary and secondary education at the Centennial Conference of the National Urban League. He followed to the podium Arne Duncan, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Both were introduced by Marc Morial, the President and CEO of the Urban League.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The Hilde Back Educational Fund is a small organization, with the mission of promoting educational development through sponsorship. The film documents their small yet significant impact in Kenya. But the tiny village in Kenya can be looked at as a microcosm for much of the rest of the world.

By Stacey Patton
When I finished the full story, I came to the surprising conclusion that this latest interaction between a white teacher and black child’s hair just might not be a racist incident after all.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
Dominque Freeman is one of the lucky ones. She is just completing her freshman year at Cal State Northridge, and she’s doing so with the help of a full academic scholarship. Even more importantly, she now has an identity.

Just a year ago, Freeman didn’t exist.

Unlike most U.S. citizens, she had no birth certificate, no social security number, and she’d just aged out of a foster care system that had determined that her case was closed.

By Doug Miller
After seventh-grade algebra students were exposed to one of math teacher D.J. Duey’s original rap songs on point plotting, their test scores showed a marked improvement.

By Damon Hewitt
Fifty-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, America is in a state of educational emergency. Many students attend schools where they are more likely to be suspended or expelled than to receive a high quality education. In terms of high school graduation, the most basic of all indicators of academic achievement, some students stand no better than a coin flip of a chance.

By Latoya Peterson
Getting underprivileged kids to college is a vital route out of poverty. TRIO, a federal program, has been doing just that for 46 years. So why is it on the chopping block?

By Doug Miller
A rural New York school district has been fined $1.25 million by a federal court for failing to quickly put a stop to continual racial harassment directed against one of its high school students.