After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...

This is the first story in our series chronicling the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In November 1960, three ...

Conservative lawmakers say professors are indoctrinating students with liberal ideas. In a series of lawsuits, professors ...

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Black teachers in Mississippi are sounding the alarm about what an America without a Department of Education could look like.

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You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild ...

“That is my superwoman,” said 21-year-old Tra’Lia Winters, who Cason called a bonus daughter. “I was just so happy to see her ...

Nashville singer-songwriter Lari White's 30-year career is being posthumously honored via induction into the Women ...

Schools blighted by environmental neglect, struggling staff and outdated materials due to the racial makeup of their citizens hoped to elevate in time, but the changes could take years to correct, ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to reinstate “common sense” school discipline, more states may follow and expand the authority of teachers and school officials to deal ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...