Race in Schools

Tom Ashbrook, Luke Massie, Michael Steel, ,Gary Orfield and Lani Gunier:

Across the country today, American schools and educators are still trying to figure out the full implications of last week's big Supreme Court ruling on race and school assignments.

A half century after the court declared that "separate but equal" does not work in education, the Roberts court seemed to point straight back to separate but equal. Or maybe forward to some new effort at colorblind equality.

This is bedrock stuff. Critics are shouting "resegregation." Supporters say "So what?"

This hour On Point: the surprising range of response to the court's big new message on race and schools.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 3, 2007 12:00 AM
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