In 1954 the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education; ten years later, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act. These monumental changes in American law

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"Education plays a central part in the history of racial inequality in America, with people of color long advocating for equal educational rights and opportunit

Despite decades of expensive school desegregation and school finance litigation, millions of African-American and Latino children remain concentrated in high-po

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