‘Double Segregation’: The Deepening Racial Divide in Schools
By Edward Graham
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court decisionBrown v. Board of Education overturned state-sponsored segregation in public schools, but over the last two decades a disturbing trend of re-segregation has emerged across the United States.In their recently released report, “E Pluribus…Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students,” UCLA’s Civil Rights Project notes the continued dramatic increase in the segregation of American schools by race and poverty, even as minority enrollment has skyrocketed.
“These trends threaten the nation’s success as a multiracial society,” said Professor Gary Orfield, co-
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