Dr. Jenn Ayscue on a new report examining the resegregation of North Carolina public schools

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It’s now been 70 years since the United States Supreme Court ordered an end to racial segregation in public schools in the famous case of Brown v. Board of Education. And while resistance to desegregation never went away, there was a window of time in the late 20^th and early 21^st Century in which many states and localities – including North Carolina — made enormous headway in building diverse and integrated public school systems.

Unfortunately, as a new report from researchers at NC State makes clear, that momentum in our state has waned and now things are trending in the opposite direction. The report is entitled “Can Our Schools Capture the Education Gains of Diversity? North Carolina School Segregation, Alternatives and Possible Gains.” It was recently published in the journal of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, and recently I caught up with one of the authors, NC State Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. Jennifer Ayscue.

Read the report: Can Our Schools Capture the Education Gains of Diversity? North Carolina School Segregation, Alternatives and Possible Gains. It was published earlier this month by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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