An important series of stories looks at the challenges and innovations that come from the fact that “minorities” now make up most students in America’s schools. (Slate & The Teacher Project)
Another series tackles what contemporary school segregation looks like in New York City. (WNYC)
How “embedded honors” classes let schools preserve diversity within their classrooms. (Chalkbeat)
How one under-the-radar charter network is achieving results by focusing on a rich curriculum, from an advocate of the approach. (Education Next)
And why one New York school with many students who have fallen behind adopted a more challenging curriculum. (Chalkbeat)
A journalist explains how her own family’s journey fits into the long history of school segregation. (New York Times)
One of the country’s oldest desegregation programs is phasing out, even though local districts remain segregated — and are happy with the program. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A new study finds that interracial friendships diminish over time — and teachers seem to play a role. (NYU)
What a teacher of color would have said at a national diversity conference if he had the floor for longer. (The Progressive)
Massachusetts’s exam is widely respected. Here’s why the state is reworking the test anyway. (Boston Globe & Hechinger Report)
There are some tests that educators say they like, but they aren’t easy to use as state exams. (Chalkbeat)
Valedictorians are using their graduation speeches to reveal that they are undocumented immigrants. (Texas Tribune)
By some measures, Detroit’s charter sector looks like it’s better than Denver’s. Could that be true? (Neerav Kingsland)
Louisiana’s new standards are (at least a little bit) different from the Common Core 20 percent of the time. (Curriculum Matters)
The United Kingdom has more poor kids making it to college. Here’s why. (The Atlantic)
Chicago is facing a principal exodus amid extreme turmoil. (Catalyst)
It’s June. So why not start thinking about what to do on the first day of school? (dy/dan)