Title: How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t - The Washington Post
Headings: How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t
How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t
Brown and desegregation
Black student achievement and the achievement gap
Resource equality is not enough
Integration remains essential
Segregated neighborhoods lead to segregated schools
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Content: Getting Accountability Right, and “Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap.” He was a national education writer for The New York Times as well. This appeared on the EPI blog. By Richard Rothstein
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May 17 is the 60 th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision that prohibited Southern states from segregating schools by race. The Brown decision annihilated the “separate but equal” rule, previously sanctioned by the Supreme Court in 1896, that permitted states and school districts to designate some schools “whites-only” and others “Negroes-only.” More important, by focusing the nation’s attention on subjugation of blacks, it helped fuel a wave of freedom rides, sit-ins, voter registration efforts, and other actions leading ultimately to civil rights legislation in the late 1950s and 1960s. But Brown was unsuccessful in its purported mission—to undo the school segregation that persists as a central feature of American public education today.