U.S. schools remain highly segregated, government report finds - NPR
Jul 14, 2022 · A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district...
School segregation still persists 70 years after Brown vs Board of ...
May 17, 2024 · Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas – the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared “separate but equal” education unconstitutional in the United States – remains one of the most consequential...
US schools still struggle with segregation 70 years after Brown v ...
Sep 23, 2024 · More than a third of students attend schools where 75% or more of those in attendance are of a single race or ethnicity, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office's most recent investigation into K-12 education.
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools remain ...
May 17, 2024 · Today, Black students make up less than nine percent of the private school's student body, but nearly two-thirds of school-aged children in the surrounding neighborhood are Black. These schools are just three of the dozens of private K-12 institutions that were developed throughout the Delta in the years since the Supreme Court's Brown v.
New 'Segregation Index' shows American schools remain highly …
May 17, 2022 · Key findings on U.S. school segregation. In large school districts, white-Black segregation between schools increased 35 percent and white-Asian segregation more than doubled from 1991 to 2020. White-Hispanic segregation was higher in 2020 than in 1991, peaking in the late 2000s.
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, new research shows …
May 6, 2024 · Board of Education, a new report from researchers at Stanford and USC shows that racial and economic segregation among schools has grown steadily in large school districts over the past three decades — an increase that appears to be driven in part by policies favoring school choice over integration.
Schools are still segregated, and black children are paying a price
Feb 12, 2020 · We use the most recently released data to describe school segregation and its consequences for math performance of eighth-graders. These data show that only about one in eight white students (12.9%) attends a school where a majority of students are black, Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian.
‘Segregation Index’ shows U.S. schools remain highly segregated
May 17, 2022 · In large school districts, white-Black segregation has increased 35% and economic segregation has increased 47% over the past 30 years. That’s according to the Segregation Index, a comprehensive new resource for tracking neighborhood and school segregation in the United States.
School Segregation is Widening Racial Achievement Gaps in U.S.
Jan 6, 2025 · As a result of the Brown v Board of Education case over seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.Despite this federal ruling, recent studies have found that segregation has continued to increase in K-12 schools across the country. According to a new study published in the American Sociological …
Are schools resegregating? Data since 1991 says yes
May 16, 2024 · Here are more figures that reflect the ways racial segregation in schools has changed over the past three decades since the 1991 decision in the Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell.