Race and Schools

Research Brief With Recommendations for Action

Four decades after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, we are a very different nation. We are a nation where the White population will become the minority in the nation's schools in just a few years. We are a nation where nearly a fifth of public school students come from linguistic minority families.

Even though there is no significant effort to desegregate our schools now, thousands of American schools, mostly in the suburbs, are going through racial and ethnic change as Black and Latino families move away from central urban areas and many city schools experience displacement of one minority by another.

Read  Race and Schools: The Need for Action - by researcher Gary Orfield (Civil Rights Project at UCLA), in which he links his research on race to recommendations for closing achievement gaps.