After decades in the political wilderness, school integration seems poised to make a serious comeback as an education reform strategy. A growing number of parents, university officials, and employers want elementary and secondary schools to better prepare students for the increasingly racially and ethnically diverse society and the global economy.…

The landmark legal decision, Brown v. Board of Education, was rendered on May 17, 1954. Fifty years later, campuses and communities are commemorating the decision and its impact on contemporary life. The Harvard legal scholar, Charles Ogletree, has published a riveting book of his reflections, a government commission is staging a variety of…

The U.S. Office of Education is required by law to collect statistics to show the condition and progress of education. Statistics can be made available, on a national scale, to the extent that school administrators, principals, and college officials cooperate on a voluntary basis with the Office of Education in making the facts available. This…