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"In
Florida, at least five school districts, including Broward and Hillsborough,
have seen their court orders lifted in the past decade. Other local counties are already free of
their old orders. The trend brought a warning last year from the Civil Rights
Project at Harvard University that schools are resegregating. The Mumford
center contends, however, that resegregation is not intentional, but rather the
result of stubborn residential patterns and rapid growth among nonblack
populations, particularly Hispanics." 50 YEARS OF INTEGRATION
Schools change, but slowly, May 9, 2004, Orlando
Sentinel Author:Leslie Postal |
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"Fifty years ago this month, the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregating children by race
was unconstitutional, creating in the minority children a 'sense of inferiority (that)
affects the motivation of the child to learn.' In 1977, Seattle carried out the legacy of Brown in becoming the first
major city to adopt a comprehensive desegregation busing plan without a court
order." Decades of effort fail to close
gap in student achievement, May 9, 2004,
The
Seattle Times, Author: Sanjay
Bhatt
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"A week from tomorrow, educators and others
around the country will observe the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of
Education, the landmark court decision outlawing school segregation. But
according to a nationwide study of elementary schools conducted by the Lewis Mumford Center at SUNY
Albany, New York doesn't have much to celebrate. In fact, New York's is the
only one of the nation's 30 biggest school systems in which black-white
segregation increased from1968 to 2000…"For a Historic Anniversary, Few Hurrahs for
New York, May 9, 2004, The
New York Times, Author: SETH KUGEL
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"Fifty years after a landmark
court decision brought the promise of better schooling for black students,
most of Illinois' black children are still relegated to segregated and inferior
schools, a Tribune study has found." Still
separate, unequal, May 9, 2004, Chicago
Tribune, Authors: Diane Rado, Darnell Little and
Grace Aduroja
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"Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court forbade
government-sanctioned school segregation, racially diverse schools like
Evanston--48 percent white, 39 percent African-American and 9 percent Latino
this year--still are rare. These schools are in the vanguard of a new battle:
Getting students of different races to interact more, and working to understand
and address why minorities tend to lag behind their white peers."
Celebrating
diversity, but still seeking unity, May 9, 2004, Chicago
Tribune Author: Jodi S. Cohen |
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"Santa Rosa schools have grown increasingly
segregated in the past decade, dividing white and Latino majorities onto
separate campuses as the number of white students has plummeted in the city's
core and west side. The trend, which is most dramatic in 10 of the city's
elementary schools, reflects a rapid influx of Latino students and the
accelerated flight of middle-class white students…" Growing ethnic divide
in city's classrooms Segregation grips schools from
Latino southwest to white northeast, May 2, 2004 The
Press Democrat Author:
ROBERT DIGITALE |
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"Across the United
States, the step away from desegregation has resulted
largely from court orders that school systems end cross-town
busing and other attendance policies based on race.
Shaw and other desegregation advocates say slipping
diversity does not mean schools are reverting to old
ways." Half-century
later, are schools more separate or more equal?, CNN, May 1, 2004
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"As
the Brown anniversary nears, many children still attend racially
separate, unequal schools. They're not segregated by law —Brown stopped
that. But black and white children are now separated largely by how much their
parents earn and where they can afford to live. Across the USA, the result is
practically the same: In 2000, 71% of minority students attended schools where
they were in the majority. Minorities accounted for nearly 4 in 10 public
school students; yet 43.4% of white students went to schools in which fewer
than 1 in 10 was a minority." Integrated schools
still a dream 50 years later USA
TODAY April, 28, 2004 Author:
Greg Toppo
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