Inequality

Damaged buildings in poorer communities often remain vacant for years, while wealthier areas rebuild faster and better.

The Rhode Center at Stanford Law School takes a multidisciplinary approach to making the civil justice system more equitable, accessible, and transparent.

Researchers found that children who attend higher-performing schools have accelerated white matter development, including in an area of the brain closely associated with reading skills.

The majority of people in the United States support affordable housing, but attitudes often shift when local developments are proposed.

The narrowness of the ruling in the 1954 Supreme Court decision contributes to its having had painfully little effect on the field of education, says Stanford Law’s Ralph Richard Banks. “Brown at 70 is not aging well.”

A new report finds students exceeded a typical year’s progress in math and reading, but slower gains among poor students have widened the achievement gap.