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: full-service school health clinics; more skilled teachers; and smaller classes. Even with these added resources, students can rarely be successful in racially and economically isolated schools where remediation and discipline supplant regular instruction, excessive student mobility disrupts learning, involvement of more-educated parents is absent, and students lack adult and peer models of educational success. Schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated. Raising achievement of low-income black children requires residential integration, from which school integration can follow. Education policy is housing policy. Federal requirements that communities must pursue residential integration have been unenforced, and federal programs to subsidize movement of low-income families to middle-class communities have been weak and ineffective. Correcting these policy shortcomings is essential if the promise of Brown is to be fulfilled. Brown and desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s unanimous school desegregation decision whose 60 th anniversary we celebrate on May 17, had enormous impact.