Pop Quiz on School Segregation

All questions are True/False.

Question 1: The racial segregation of schools ended quickly after the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954.

Question 2: Most school districts devised effective methods to integrate schools and ensure equal educational opportunity, regardless of race.  

Question 3: Today, courts don’t have to intervene to desegregate schools.

If you answered “True” to any of the questions, perhaps you should read about this court decision in Mississippi [2]. 

The Mississippi case is an egregious example of a larger trend—the resegregation of public schools. Other school districts may be more subtle about it, but their policies often lead to the same end. Our most recent issue of [3]Teaching Tolerance [3] [3] magazine [3] explores the resegregation of American schools along the lines of race, gender and ethnicity.

Does this sound like what’s happening in your community?