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Does Integration Still Matter in Public Schools?
One longtime education expert, Richard Kahlenberg, says integration in public schools today is increasingly about class, not race.
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The Return of School Segregation in Eight Charts
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, racial divides are back on the rise inside America’s classrooms. What happened?
July 15, 2014
How the Supreme Court Shaped School Segregation
From the mid-1800s, when the court defined "separate but equal" to recent challenges to integration, here's a look at some of the landmark decisions.
July 15, 2014
"I Have Grown to Be Resilient"
Omarina and Ms. Miller on filming "Middle School Moment" and how they bonded during Omarina's high-school application process
July 15, 2014
Middle School Moment
July 15, 2014
Dropout Nation
July 15, 2014
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Separate and Unequal
Separate and Unequal
Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback.
July 15, 2014
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Omarina on the train
Omarina's Story
FRONTLINE updates the story of a struggling student from the Bronx who today is excelling at an elite prep school thanks to a groundbreaking program to stem the high school dropout crisis.
July 15, 2014
A Return to School Segregation in America?
Public schools are more segregated now than in 1968. Does it matter? FRONTLINE goes inside one school district's debate.
July 2, 2014
Report: School Segregation Is Back, 60 Years After "Brown"
White students are the most isolated in the country, even as the number of minority students increases. That's bad for everyone, a new report finds.
May 15, 2014
Bill Tries, Again, to Curb For-Profit Colleges' Share of GI Cash
For the second time in two years, Congress is trying to close a loophole that allows for-profit colleges and universities to collect billions of federal dollars in tuition from veterans.
November 14, 2013
A Note from Dropout Nation's Marco: "I Love My Life"
Marco is now a paratrooper in the U.S. Army, and wrote in to FRONTLINE with some advice for would-be graduates.
September 30, 2013