Racial Segregation Returning To Schools

America’s public schools are slipping back into racial segregation, according to a Harvard study to be released today.

Researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education found that between 1991 and 1994, there was the largest backward movement toward segregation since the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education declared school segregation laws unconstitutional.

The trend was likely to continue, the report said.

“In American race relations, the bridge from the 20th century may be leading back into the 19th,” it said.

Scholars studied public school enrollment statistics for the period 1968 to 1994.

They said schools have become resegregated as the non-white population becomes increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas.