Beyond Brown
Across the United States, the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was an occasion for re-collecting and re-calling Americans to the principles and struggles of the movement for integration and educational equity. At the University of Michigan and elsewhere the commemoration of the case was also a call to action, to “fulfilling the promise” of Brown by moving beyond complacency about its achievements and frustration about its failures.
Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College, reminds us that “each of us has a sphere of influence” in effecting change in society. To move “Beyond Brown,” at least three challenges must be met:
- Beyond Milliken v. Bradley
Meeting the challenges of residential segregation and resulting school segregation
- Beyond Grutter & Gratz
Meeting continuing challenges to educational access
- Beyond Testing
Meeting the challenges of high-stakes testing
Links of Interest
The ramifications of the Brown decision are explored by the American Bar Association, NPR, and others in the links below.
Please also see the Multimedia and Related
Links section
of this website for more links of interest.
Beyond Milliken v. Bradley
ABA Commission on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
ABA Resources
Bending Toward Justice: The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
American School Board Journal
ASBJ Special Reports
Beyond Brown multimedia archives
WILL
broadcasting service of the University of Illinois
“Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise”
PBS program
pbs.org
Children’s Defense Fund
Education and Youth Development: 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
The Civil Rights Project
50 years after Brown and 30 years after busing(press release)
Brown at 50: King’s Dream or Plessy’s Nightmare? (article)
Separate and Unequal: segregation and educational opportunity in metro Boston
The Future of Brown v. Board of Education: Economic Integration of the Public Schools
by Molly S. McUsic
372KB PDF document, opens with Adobe Acrobat Reader
The Legacy of School Busing
NPR.org
The New Segregation
by Luis M. Laosa
ETS Policy Notes: News from the ETS Policy Information Center
Volume 10, Number 1 Educational Testing Service Spring 2001
412KB PDF document, opens with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Newsweek Gallery:
“The Legacy of Brown”
Smart Growth and School Reform: What if We Talked about Race and Took Community Seriously?
by Howell S. Baum
360KB PDF document, opens with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Teaching Tolerance Magazine
special issue on the Brown decision
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Beyond Grutter & Gratz
The College Board
Achieving Diversity in Higher Education
Affirmative Action and Diversity: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
by Mark R. Killenbeck
ETS Policy Information Perspective
2MB PDF document, opens with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Economic Affirmative Action in College Admissions:
A Progressive Alternative to Racial Preferences and Class Rank Admissions Plans
by Richard D. Kahlenberg
The Century Foundation, 4/2/03
University of Michigan: Information on Admissions Lawsuits
University of Michigan: Provost Paul Courant
Speech at the Summit on Diversity
hosted by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
University of Texas:
Educating for a Diverse America:
a summit and symposium, January 29-30, 2004
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Beyond Testing
High Stakes: Will misguided test use doom the standards movement?
American Association of School Administrators
The School Administrator Web Edition, December 2000
American Educational Research Association
AERA Position Statement Concerning High-Stakes Testing in PreK-12 Education
American Psychological Association
Appropriate Use of High-Stakes Testing in Our Nation’s Schools
The Civil Rights Project
Inspiring Vision, Disappointing Results:
Four Studies on Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act
By Gail L. Sunderman and Jimmy Kim
FairTest, The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
Frontline: “No Child Left Behind”
High-Stakes Testing, Uncertainty, and Student Learning
Audrey L. Amrein, Arizona State University and David C. Berliner, Arizona State University
Educational Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 10, no. 18, March 28, 2002
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