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Educators, activists and academics are raising the bar when it comes to achieving truly integrated schools.

Two afternoons a week, I tutor a high school junior in English and history and enjoy gleaning insights into a different school community than the one in which I work. My client Mary attends a school with a predominantly white and wealthy student population. I work mainly with students of color from families who live in poverty.

Representations of black people as animals is both a past and present manifestation of the United States’ complicated history with race.

This teacher believes it’s crucial for white teachers like her to seek out productive ways to talk about race and racism with students.

Kawania Wooten’s voice tightens when she describes the struggle she’s having at the school her son attends. When his class created a timeline of civilization, Wooten saw the Greeks, the Romans and the Incas. But nothing was said about Africa, even though the class has several African American students.

Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.