Racial divides.

• Author: Mayer, Elizabeth
• Position: Education - Increased segregation in schools - Brief Article

Almost 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that outlawed public-school segregation, American schools are segregating again. New research by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard finds that in our largest school districts, fewer white students are mixing with blacks--especially in the South--despite a national increase in minority enrollment.

Researchers blame a series of court decisions that have struck...