Resegregation Marked at birth Articles Research
Where are we now?
Despite the ruling in Brown v. Board, schools today are still fighting racial segregation. The NEA co-sponsored report "Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nightmare?" shows a rising rate of resegregation, since 1991, for many white, African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaskan Native students.
Whites are the most segregated – on average, they attend schools that are 80% white. Just 14% of whites attend multi-racial schools. This report data is based on the 2001-02 school year.
Before they're even born, poor and minority children risk doing poorly in school. Contributing factors include: rigorous curriculum, teacher preparation/experience/attendance, class size, technology-assisted instruction, school safety, parent participation, student mobility, birth weight, lead poising, nutrition.
- Disproportionately placed in remedial courses
- Few minorities have access to or are enrolled in Advanced Placement courses
- Student achievement gap still wide
- Brown at 50: The Promise Unfulfilled: 5-week series from Education Week on the Web (members-only, but sign-up is simple and free)
- From Segregation to Secretary, Paige Living the Brown Legacy, interview in San Francisco Gate, May 5, 2004
- Race and the Achievement Gap, collection of articles from Kansas-NEA
- Teaching Brown, American School Board Journal
- Unequal Education: 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Where Are We Now on the Field of Equality?, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nightmare?, Harvard Civil Rights Project
- Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education, Harvard Civil Rights Project (PDF)
- How Desegregation Changed Us, Report from Teachers College (PDF)
- A Multiracial Society with Segregated Schools: Are We Losing the Dream?, Harvard Civil Rights Project (PDF)
- Parsing the Achievement Gap, Educational Testing Service (PDF)
- Reflections on Brown v. Board: The Long-Term Effect of Desegregated High Schools, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
- School Desegregation Projects, Harvard Civil Rights Project