(NAME-MCE) Historic Reversals, Accelerating

[Bill Howe]

Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New
Integration Strategies

Gary Orfield & Chungmei Lee
A report of the Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles, UCLA
August 2007

http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/reversals_reseg_need.pdf

American schools, resegregating gradually for almost two decades, are
now experiencing
accelerating isolation and this will doubtless be intensified by the
recent decision of the
U.S. Supreme Court. This June, the Supreme Court handed down its first
major decision
on school desegregation in 12 years in the Louisville and Seattle
cases.1 A majority of a
divided Court told the nation both that the goal of integrated schools
remained of
compelling importance but that most of the means now used voluntarily by school
districts are unconstitutional. As a result, most voluntary
desegregation actions by school
districts must now be changed or abandoned. As educational leaders and
citizens across
the country try to learn what they can do, and decide what they will
do, we need to know
how the nation's schools are changing, what the underlying trends are
in the segregation
of American students, and what the options are they might consider.

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