U.S. School Segregation Now at '69 Level

[Pale Blue Dot]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26073-2004Jan17.html

Half a century after the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of American education, schools are almost as segregated as they were when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, according to a report released today by Harvard University researchers.

The study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, shows that progress toward school desegregation peaked in the late 1980s as courts concluded that the goals of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education had largely been achieved. Over the past 15 years, the trend has been in the opposite direction, and most white students now have "little contact" with minority students in many areas of the country, according to the report.

"We are celebrating a victory over segregation at a time when schools across the nation are becoming increasingly segregated," noted the report, which was issued on the eve of the holiday celebrating King's birthday.

Nothing in the article about whether or not this segregation is even close to producing "seperate but equal" schools, although I think we can assume that answer.

[lcordero]

1. Nothing is "separate but equal"

Go to the upper East side of Manhattan and look at the faces and the buildings there, then go to the lower Bronx and look at the faces and the buildings there.

[fishguy]

2. John Edwards "Two Americas of George Bush" is a great line

One America for the wealthy, one America for the rest.

[lcordero]

4. great line, too bad he sided with the wealthy on the three

biggest pieces of legislation that affect the rest of America.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00313
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00371

[ClassWarrior]

3. Agreed, but...

Wow, where did you get the photo of Russ Feingold's garage?? That place is a shrine...

[lcordero]

5. http://www.russfeingold.org

:)

[ithacan]

6. CLASS segregation

I'd bet that segregation by class is also getting stronger.

I'd bet that most upper middle class white students have even less contact with lower middle class white students than with blacks.

As Martin Luther King Jr. himself realized, the real battle in this country has to be a class-based one.