Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Public schools became more segregated in the 1990s. More so than our neighborhoods, our schools are bastions of race and class privilege on the one hand, and race and class disadvantage on the other. Black and Latino schoolchildren are bearing the heaviest costs of this separation. They tend to be relegated to high-poverty; overwhelmingly minority schools that are characterized by poorer test scores, less experienced teachers, and fewer resources than the type of public schools most white children attend. This Essay argues that public schooling has become the "great equalizer" in America because it tends to place white children in predominantly white middle class schools and black and Latino children in predominantly minority, heavily poor schools.
Publication Citation
47 How. L.J. 341-360
Scholarly Commons Citation
Cashin, Sheryll, "American Public Schools Fifty Years After Brown: A Separate and Unequal Reality" (2004). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1700.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1700