Brown vs. the Board of Education
It is hard to believe that it has really been fifty years since that monumental case. Every student knows that Brown legally ended the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. This case was as symbolical as it was practible. It was the first timethe supreme court ruled that segregated schools are unequal. With Lots of court orders and the civil rights movement, southern schools were some of the most integrated in the country. Not only were children being educated in the same school; but student test scores were starting to be comparable, to each other. The world was looking good. Unfortunatly, as the times changed and focus shifted away from the schools to other social problems, desegregation has had to take a back seat to " high stakes testing , school cho
" Just like the African- american population majority of Latinos live under the poverty Line. It is called white flight, to schools in suburbia. Continue to keep the fundamentals of Brown in the forethoughts of education, and "overhaul policies" that lead minority students to failing out at faster rates. According to a report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project; [A] substantial group f American schools. " which created the opportunity for schools to start slipping Back into their old patterns. While legal segergation has been put to rest, many inter city school still remain porosity black and poor, this was caused by the overwhelming shift of the white population. Public schools today are almost just as segregated as they were back in the 1950's under the Jim Crowe laws. What is going on , shouldn't this have been taken care of by now, the answer, many families , institutions and private individuals still hunger for segeration, and they have found legal means of doing so. What do we do now? We start with the basics, fix the living conditions which are the root of the problem.
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