In rejecting Plessy v. Ferguson's “separate but equal” doctrine in Brown v. Board of
Education, the US Supreme Court created a presumption that segregation equals …

Parents, researchers, courts, and others interested in school desegregation for the last four
decades have noted almost unanimously that school segregation and residential …

Reports of the 2000 census confirm a disturbing pattern: while America is becoming more
racially and ethnically diverse, the nation's inner cities are more segregated today than they …

One of the goals of the symposium," Rekindling the Spirit of Brown," is" to develop innovative
and creative strategies for insuring equal educational opportunity for students of color in K …

In June of 1995, the Supreme Court delivered its most recent blow to the fulfillment of racial
equality in America. In Missouri v. Jenkins,'a case involving school desegregation in Kansas …

The severe inequities that characterize American metropolitan systems of education,
housing and employment are closely related to the geographic concentration of low-income …

The year 1994 is the twentieth anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley, 18 US 717 (1974). It thus
marks the halfway point between Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954), and the …

Some degree of residential segregation is inevitable in urban settings. Perfect intermingling
among disparate groups is statistically unlikely and runs contrary to human nature; people …

In the decade before and after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education,
1 de jure segregation, the system of racially identified space, coalesced with formal land use …

This article examines the process of fragmentation to understand how the process of
establishing new school districts results in high metropolitan‐area segregation. Using …