Kenji Hakuta, a Stanford University scholar who strives to improve education opportunities for language minority students, will deliver the Seventh Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research here next month.

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 50 years after Brown v.

Although the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board of Education in 1954 overturned segregation within many US metropolitan communities and districts, school districts were slow to change and have remained segregated between districts.

Rosa Parks, before her death, was associated with the charter schools movement. Black parents and teachers in Topeka, Kan., are trying to establish a charter school in the same building where plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education were denied admission in 1951.

By Janice E Hale As part of the dedication of Virginia's Civil Rights Memorial, Professor Janice Hale, of Wayne State University in Michigan, will moderate a July 20 panel at the Library of Virginia titled, "From Struggle to Triumph to Tomorrow." The Times-Dispatch and the organizers of the conference asked Hale for her initial thoughts on the topic.