![]() This does not mean that most Americans do not also prefer neighborhood schools - they do - but it makes clear that most people would like integrated schools if they didn't have to do anything in order to get them. Likewise, almost all parents want their children to be prepared to get along with children of all backgrounds in a society that is on pace to become half non-white within their lifetimes.Īccording to a recent Gallup Poll, increasing majorities of Americans believe that integration has improved the quality of education for both Blacks and Whites. Still, an overwhelming majority of Americans favor desegregated schools. ![]() Others assume - perhaps because of the little discussion of desegregation in educational policy debates - that we have done all that can be done. Some say that this demonstrates that desegregation failed and that we are worse off than before the famous court decision whose 50th anniversary we are celebrating. The abandonment is driven, in part, by Supreme Court decisions ending desegregation orders. ![]() School desegregation, celebrated as a historic accomplishment, is being abandoned in practice as much of urban America turns back to segregated neighborhood schools. Historian John Hope Franklin, echoing the words of W.E.B. By any standard of measurement or evaluation the problem has not been solved in the 20th century and thus becomes part of the legacy and burden of the next century. The problem of the 21st century will be the problem of the color line.
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