Schools appear ready to resegregate.

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By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court rejected plans by two public school districts in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, Wash., to take into account students' race when deciding where youngsters will attend class. According to Kevin Brown, professor of law at Indiana University, Bloomington, the Supreme Court's opinion in the two cases is likely to roll back efforts by many public school districts to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of their institutions.

"There can be little question that the Court's opinion will increase the trend toward the ... resegregation of public schools that has been going on for the past 20 years," he charges. "The only bright spot for advocates of school integration was in the concurring opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. While five justices did agree to strike down the plans presented by Seattle and Louisville, Kennedy wrote a separate...