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Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America's Schools

Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America's Schools

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial MovementsUnited States Politics

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ISBN10: 0815731663
ISBN13: 9780815731665
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Apr 19 2022
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.87 Width: 4.88 Depth: 8.11
Language: English

A decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret.
Ten years ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down two local school board initiatives meant to reverse extreme racial segregation in public schools. The sharply divided 5-4 decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District marked the end of an era of efforts by local authorities to fulfill the promise of racially integrated education envisioned by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In a searing landmark dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer warned this was a decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret. A decade later, the unabated resegregation of America's schools continues to confirm Justice Breyer's fears, as many schools and school districts across the country are more racially segregated today than they were in the late 1960s.

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