1. Race, and Schooling Diversity and the dilemma of schooling
A brief history of school segregation and desegregation

2. Diversity and Schooling
One of the great challenges facing American schools has and continues to be to provide for a school population that is growing in size and becoming increasingly diverse
Diversity appeared and continues to appear in many forms: racial/ethnic, class, ability, gender, interest/inclination, sexual orientation

3. School Segregation: A History
During the pre-Civil War period, it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write
In the half century following the Civil War Southern blacks fought for access to public education
Blacks as the moving force behind public education in the South
Free states either excluded blacks or provided segregated public schools

4. Plessey vs. Ferguson 1896

5. Brown v. Board of Education
Suites against segregated schools in four states
Plaintiffs argued that they had been denied protection under the 14th amendment
Is assigning children to school on the basis of race constitutional?
Use of social science evidence

6. An ambiguous decision—desegregation or integration
James Coleman and his report: Equality of Educational Opportunity and the movement for integration
Milliken v. Bradley and the demise of desegregation

7. Re-segregation Courts sanction a return to neighborhood schools
Blacks abandon integration in favor of quality education
The impossibility of school desegregation
Detroit’s mayoral takeover and the role of race