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Correcting these policy shortcomings is essential if the promise of Brown is to be fulfilled.īrown v.

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.

Raising achievement of low-income black children requires residential integration, from which school integration can follow.

Schools remain segregated today because neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated.

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.

Expensive but necessary resources include high-quality early childhood programs, from birth to school entry high-quality after-school and summer programs full-service school health clinics more skilled teachers and smaller classes.

But resource equality itself is insufficient disadvantaged students require much greater resources than middle-class white students to prepare for success in school.

Inequalities still exist in some places, although they are much smaller.

Schools for black children had enormous resource shortages in 1954.Academic achievement of African Americans has improved dramatically in recent decades, but whites’ has as well, so racial achievement gaps remain huge.

Initial school integration gains following Brown stalled and black children are more racially and socioeconomically isolated today than at any time since data have been available (1970).Although Brown stimulated a civil rights movement that desegregated many facets of American society, it was least successful in integrating education, the decision’s aim.This issue brief highlights key elements of the American education system that have evolved in the wake of Brown:

But Brown was unsuccessful in its purported mission-to undo the school segregation that persists as a central feature of American public education today. The Brown decision annihilated the “separate but equal” rule, previously sanctioned by the Supreme Court in 1896, that permitted states and school districts to designate some schools “whites-only” and others “Negroes-only.” More important, by focusing the nation’s attention on subjugation of blacks, it helped fuel a wave of freedom rides, sit-ins, voter registration efforts, and other actions leading ultimately to civil rights legislation in the late 1950s and 1960s. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision that prohibited Southern states from segregating schools by race. May 17 is the 60 th anniversary of Brown v.