Brown v. Board
Education
Opinion
60 Years After Brown, A Way for Schools to Fulfill Its Promise
Sixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared that education was "a right which must be made available to all on equal terms," American schools remain largely separate and unequal. Sam Chaltain has an idea about how we can change that.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Lenses on Brown's Legacy
Dean Kevin Kumashiro: These charts illustrate what research has made clear: that schools and communities remain racially segregated 60 years after Brown.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Narrowing the Income Achievement Gap
Heather Schwartz: Given the size of the problem, no single reform is going to eliminate the income achievement gap.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Addressing Virtually Segregated Schools
Kent McGuire: Segregation matters, especially if it impacts the distribution of resources, shapes policy decisions ... and affects the distribution of talented teachers
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Brown: 60 Years Hence
Patricia Gándara: Ironically, as the nation becomes more diverse, we become more isolated from one another.
Law & Courts
Opinion
K-12 Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal
Sixty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, racial disparities in schools should be a call to action.
Law & Courts
Collection
Brown v. Board at 60: New Diversity, Familiar Disparities
Many public schools continue to be segregated 60 years after the Supreme Court struck down the principle of "separate but equal" education.
Equity & Diversity
Video
Voices of History: John A. Stokes
In 1951, John A. Stokes led a student protest against the poor conditions in his segregated high school in Prince Edward County, Va., and later became a plaintiff in a case that was decided as part of Brown v. Board. Education Week Video
Law & Courts
Video
Voices of History: Sylvia Mendez
Sylvia Mendez was 9 when her father became a plaintiff in a lawsuit that forced the Westminster school district, in Orange County, Calif., to allow children of Mexican descent to attend schools with white students.
Education
Opinion
Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board
In the history of the United States, there are a few landmark moments when institutional barriers that preordained entire groups of people to a life of struggle and inequality came crashing down, opening a path to opportunity. One of those moments was May 17, 1954, when, in a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that state laws establishing separate but "equal" schools based on race were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. This decision began the process of healing one of the greatest scars laid upon our nation's history: the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision establishing legal apartheid.
Education
ProPublica Examines Resegregation of Schools, 60 Years After Brown Decision
The nonprofit journalism site reports that the gains of the desegregation era have eroded in many places, including Tuscaloosa, Ala., the focus of its investigation.
Education
Obituary
M. Brewster Smith, Witness in Landmark Case
A professor whose research and testimony contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision died Aug. 4
Law & Courts
Opinion
Charter Schools and the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
UNCF's Michael Lomax explores the legacy of desegregation in the rise of charter schools.
Education
Obituary
Key Lawyer in Brown v. Board Dies at Age 94
The civil rights lawyer, who was a retired federal district judge in Manhattan, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
