Racial Diversity in Public Schools

Jost, Kenneth. "Racial Diversity in Public Schools." CQ Researcher 17.32 (2007): 745-768.

Has the Supreme Court dealt a blow to integration? Fifty years after the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools, a new ruling has raised doubts about how far local school boards can go to integrate classrooms. The court's 5-4 ruling in cases from Seattle and Louisville bars school districts from using race as a factor in individual pupil assignments. Like many other school districts, the two school systems used racial classifications to promote diversity in the face of segregated housing patterns. But parents argued the plans improperly denied their children their school of choice because of race. Dissenting justices said the ruling was a setback for racial equality. In a pivotal concurrence, however, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said schools still have some leeway to pursue racial diversity. Meanwhile, some experts argue that socioeconomic integration — bringing low-income and middle-class students together — is a more effective way to pursue educational equity.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Racial isolation in the public schools; a report. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1967.

Orfield, Gary. Dismantling desegregation : the quiet reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. New York : New Press, 1996.
Call Number: LC212.62 .O72 1996 Location: Main Collection