The city’s eight specialized high schools are regarded as crown jewels but also symbols of segregation. The number of Black ...

Fewer Black and Latino students were offered seats at New York City’s specialized high schools for this fall, potentially ...

Black students make up 19.5% of NYC’s public schools, but only 3% were accepted into specialized institutions like Stuyvesant ...

New York City’s Education Department has yet to release highly anticipated high school admissions statistics, marking the first time in more than a decade that officials have not disclosed the results ...

In a recent newsletter, we asked for your questions about education. You wondered about student loans, the Columbia ...

First built in the 1800s to educate all elementary school children of South Park, Kansas, the two-room schoolhouse is ...

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

From the Beverly Hils Hotel in Los Angeles to churches in Harlem, these Black architects often never received their just due... until now.

Outrage is intensifying over plans to build a whites-only community in Arkansas as organizers claim they have found a way to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold ...

Wikimedia Commons/ Mamie Tape In 1884, eight-year-old Mamie Tape walked up to Spring Valley Primary School in San Francisco, ready for her first day. The principal turned her away because she was ...

By John J. Galluzzo Beauty pageants, summer sunshine and even a presidential visit were offset by a rash of car accidents, powerful summer storms and at least one man falling down an elevator shaft ...