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Chicago has rapidly become one of the leading cities in offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes in urban high schools. But even among the participating minority groups, disparities still exist: while Latino students are participating in AP exams at a rate roughly equal to their percentage of the student population, African-American students still lag behind:
www.catalyst-chicago.org/06-04/0604main1.htm
Falling behind: A study shows that while Hispanics make up around a quarter of Colorado's student population—the largest minority group in the state—they making up only 14.8% of graduates:
insidedenver.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_2931520,00.html
Divide and...? At one Seattle high school, residents say there's a deep divide between the opportunities for black and white students—so much so that they don't even seem to be attending the same school:
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/176577_garfield07.html
The impact of desegregation: a new issue of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's ResearchBrief looks at the lives of individuals who graduated from desegregated high schools:
www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/researchbrief/volume2/v2n12.html
Even after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing legalized segregation of schools by race, integration has still not been fully realized. The problem appears to be especially bad in the Southern states:
www.mdcinc.org/sospublic.htm
An isolated minority: fifty years after Brown v. Board, this article takes a look at another minority group—Latin Americans, who often find themselves culturally isolated in ethnically heterogeneous schools:
www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2004/05/17/in_school_latinos_find_fewer_resources_ethnic_isolation
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Education Trust has issued a state-by-state report of how our schools are providing for the needs of minority students:
www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Press+Room/2004+reports.htm
"Separate but equal" may have been debunked, but a new battle—the battle for equity of opportunity—still needs to be fought. This article explores the race—and class—achievement gap:
www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?cp=1&kaid=110&subid=900023&contentid=252576
A "Mexican standoff"—with positive consequences for education: a decade before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Supreme Court had already ruled that segregation based on national origins was unconstitutional:
www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=15976
Equal right aren't enough—equal terms and opportunities are what's needed. This essay discusses how American schools have failed children of color:
www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/features/askput/johnson.html
Education Secretary Rod Paige gives his take on Brown v. Board of Education, calling his initial belief that it was "another Emancipation Proclamation" naive.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/05/national1345EDT0589.DTL