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Brown In The 21st Century: A Focus On Court-Ordered Desegregation Today, Bikna Huang Jun 2013

Brown In The 21st Century: A Focus On Court-Ordered Desegregation Today, Bikna Huang

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954) has been highly regarded as a landmark decision that set forth the promise of equality in education for all students. The goal of Brown still remains relevant in the field of education, but recent decisions in the 1990s have signaled what scholars claim to be the end of court-ordered desegregation. This study seeks to answer whether these policies are moving in the direction of Brown by testing the relationship between desegregation plans and educational performance. The findings in this study show that court-ordered desegregation plans are not statistically significant to educational attainment, but the …