Topic: Brown v. Board of Education

Well, those of us who lived through the judicial masterpiece that is Bush v. Gore certainly wouldn't want this to happen, would we?. . Some legal...

Grannis: Charters, in black and white

About 90% of students attending charter schools in New York City are minorities. This has provoked some to accuse charter schools of creating...

They killed Jim Crow

When people put their minds to changing society through nonviolent protest - when they are right about a basic moral truth - they can transform the...
Emmy-Winning Documentarian To Lecture at the Nicholas Academic Centers. . Mar. 18, 2011 (Business Wire) - Sandra Robbie, who wrote and produced the...
1940 to 1980 was a time full of change for America. The most important event was the Brown v. Black people were only allowed at black schools where they would have messed up books and not as good as an educational learning ...
" It wasn't long ago that the question was "Why is there so much interracial dating? I grew up on the white side of Jim Crow in the Old South (I'm an old guy). I told my overwhelmingly segregationist class mates ...
the Board of education was a court case that affected school funding in both subtle and dramatic ways. Patterson (2001) reported that school finance models changed after the Brown decision because as blacks were using the courts to gain more equality, whites ...
In honor of the first day of school, I am reposting my list of some of my favorite movie teachers in elementary and middle school. Note that not all movies about kids this age are intended to be viewed by kids this ...
In 1952, the United States Supreme Court heard a series of cases dealing with desegregating America's public schools-the most famous of which being Brown v. When 13 African American parents tried to enroll their children in schools in their community, they ...

Racists ampRobber Barons

The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of integration plans to use race as a criteria when assigning students to schools in the Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky districts. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer believes the opinions of ...