Amendment 33 was the first of three constitutional amendments ratified by voters in the decade after the begin...

The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is a system of games of chance, implemented to generate revenue to fund the s...

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Cent...

Melba Pattillo Beals made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students invo...

Bentonville (Benton County) was one of the earliest school districts in Arkansas to admit African American stu...

Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Sc...

Arkansas has struggled for much of its history to fund the education of its children—particularly during the...

The Capital Citizens’ Council (CCC) was one of many similar organizations established throughout the South t...

Much has been written about the Little Rock School District desegregation in 1957. However, the Charleston Pub...

Charter schools are public schools that operate on a contract, or charter, which allows them increased operati...

Formed in 1959 to bolster the segregationist cause in the aftermath of the desegregation of Central High Schoo...

The 1966 desegregation of schools at Des Arc (Prairie County) was accomplished under the leadership of Arkansa...

Doe v. Human was a 1989 federal court case involving a challenge to the Gravette (Benton County) school distri...

The Earle Race Riot of 1970 broke out in the late evening of September 10 and continued into the early hours o...

Elizabeth Ann Eckford made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students who...

Education reform, the process of improving public education through changes in public policy, has been slow an...

Epperson v. Arkansas, a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, challenged the right of a state to outlaw t...

Few educational issues have caused as much vehement debate in Arkansas as the teaching of evolutionary theory�...

Between 1954 and 1965, Fayetteville (Washington County) underwent the gradual integration of all primary and s...

Ernest Gideon Green made history as the only senior of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American student...

Hot Springs (Garland County), a tourist town, had one of the largest school districts in Arkansas at the time ...

During the summer and autumn of 1955, proponents and opponents of school integration across America were watch...

Silas Herbert Hunt was a veteran of World War II and a pioneer in the integration of higher education in Arkan...

Jim DuPree et al. v. Alma School District No. 30 et al. was a lawsuit that triggered twenty-five years of liti...

Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American studen...

The court case Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee examined the structure for the funding of Arkansas...

Carlotta Walls LaNier made history as the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American s...

The Little Rock Nine were the nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Cent...

The Lost Cause myth consists of a set of ideas about the history of the South that developed following the Ame...