Washington Post: Creating Equitable Public Education in the U.S.
For more than fifty years this country has been staring in the face of educational inequities. Efforts have been made to address the root causes of these inequities; the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawed formally segregated public schools, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 targeted funds to disadvantaged students in public schools. But despite these efforts, our nation’s education system remains one of great injustice.