Edited by: Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Linda Darling-Hammond
Publication Date: January 24, 2025
Pages: 272
In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress made since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chapters document the shifts over time on key aspects of education, including school segregation, achievement trends in relation to policies and practices, the diversity of the teaching force, access to resources, the role of Black scholars and community activism, and the relationship between democracy and education. The volume offers wide-ranging historical analysis, as well as guidance for the road ahead—promising policies, practices, and directions to usher in a new era where we truly attend to the educational needs of all students.
Chapters and Contributors:
1. Introduction: Expanding on the Blueprint: The Significance of Brown for Education Now by Na’ilah Suad Nasir and Naomi Mae W.
2. Brown at 70: Progress, Pushback, and Policies that Matter by Linda Darling-Hammond and Sean Darling-Hammond.
3. The Dream of Integration and the Politics of Resegregation: The Continuing Battle over the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education by Gary Orfield.
4. Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing the Limits and Possibilities of Education for Black People in the United States 70 Years After Brown by Joaquin M. S. Noguera and Pedro A. Noguera.
5. Reclaiming the Promise of Brown: The Integration of Desegregation and School Funding Reform by Rucker C. Johnson and Ary Amerikaner.
6. But What About the Teachers? The Forgotten Narratives of Black Teachers in the Midst of Brown by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
7. Facing the Rising Sun: Black Teachers’ Positive Impact Post- Brown by Travis J. Bristol and Desiree Carver-Thomas.
8. The Complex Braid of Brown: How Conceptualization and Initiatives Within the African American Community of Research, Practice, and Activism Have Influenced the Advance of Knowledge and Practice in Education by Carol D. Lee.
9. Brown v. Board of Education and the Democratic Purposes of Public Education by Kent McGuire.
Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth president of the Spencer Foundation, which funds education research nationally. Linda Darling-Hammond is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and professor emeritus at Stanford University.
“Nasir and Darling-Hammond masterfully bridge substantive analyses of the historic impact of Brown v. Board with forward-looking blueprints for progress to provide all students an opportunity to learn today and in the future.”
—John H. Jackson, president and CEO, Schott Foundation for Public Education
"This informative, engaging, and compelling book details and illuminates the complexities and contradictions of the Brown decision, including the harm it caused Black students and teachers as well as how it increased educational equality and racial justice. Enriched with the powerful voices and keen insights of eminent scholars, it is an inspiring, absorbing, and timely read that deserves a wide and influential audience."
—James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle
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