By Tarice L.S. Gray
Slavery as a topic needs no introduction to most Americans. But it does need an introduction to children; and how the facts of Negro Slavery in America has been taught to schoolchildren has often been as fraught with tension and controversy as other spheres what used to be know as “race relations.”

Last week, LDF joined more than a dozen civil rights organizations in authoring a letter urging Congress to incorporate key accountability provisions as it reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

By TaRessa Stovall
A quick round-up of recent education stories offers a glimpse into the complex stew of progress, setbacks and conflicting news that represents race and learning in America today.

By TaRessa Stovall
When Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single black mother living in public housing in Akron, Ohio, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for sending her daughters to the Copley-Fairlawn school district outside of her educational jurisdiction, the issue of what parents—especially black, low-income parents—will do to get their children a better education burst into the national consciousness.

By Matt Cregor & Damon Hewitt
Our nation’s school discipline rates have reached all-time highs. As suspension, expulsion and school-based arrests rates grow, racial disparities in discipline continue to widen.

By Lee A. Daniels
Mark Twain would be pleased, wouldn’t he?

The heated reaction to the publishing of a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the word “nigger” changed to “slave” continues unabated in the mainstream media and the blogosphere.

By The Editors
Have you noticed that it’s getting difficult to keep up with whom to blame for America’s ills?

In the recent past, college-educated blacks were less likely to smoke cigarettes than similarly educated whites. Now the reverse is true.

By The Editors
In the last decade, a coalition of public school educators, parents and civic activists across the country have charted substantial progress in deterring tens of thousands of students from dropping out of high school, according to a newly-published study.

By The Editors
The Senate Thursday tabled legislation that would provide a clear route to citizenship for high school and college students in the U.S. illegally, raising the possibility that the push to pass it has failed.