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 choice and vouchers." which created the opportunity for schools to start slipping Back into their old patterns.
             Public schools today are almost just as segregated as they were back in the 1950's under the Jim Crowe laws. According to a report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project;
             [A] substantial group f American schools.... Are virtually all non-white .... These schools educate one-sixth of the nation's black students and one-fourth of black students in the northeast and Midwest... one ninth of Latino students attend school where 99-100% of the student body is composed of minority students.
             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. It is called white flight, to schools in suburbia. 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.
             Although during this crisis the rapidly growing Hispanic population is starting to feel the pressure of ...