Despite multiple creative approaches to integrating Minnesota's segregated urban public schools, students of color in these schools remain the majority. The state's progressive, anti-racist sentiment toward education has not evolved into action on the part of White families, which leaves under-resourced urban districts struggling beneath a mere…

The bulk of research on the implementation of school choice policies has focused on how choice has been implemented in urban school systems. As of 2007, however, suburban students comprised more than one fourth (29%) of all students engaging in some form of public school choice in the United States. This article examines the implementation of…

In this article, the author explains why segregation still lives in Summerton, the town where the Brown v. Board of Education struggle began. The author traces the history of how the desegregation, which was court-ordered in 1970, has placed the students in Summerton still at a disadvantage. The Briggs v. Eliott case was the earliest of the five…