With the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling this month, several informative stories have come up out about the re-segregation of American schools.

Secretary Duncan wrote a U.S. Department of Education blog: Progress and Challenges 60 Years After Brown v. Board.  I found it particularly interesting in juxtaposition to their March Civil Rights Data Snapshot showing racial bias in school discipline.  The very first statistic of that snapshot is a startling one: “Black children represent 18% of preschool enrollment, but 48% of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension.”  [Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) aired a short piece about Oregon suspension rates following the national trend.]

The latest NEA Today magazine’s cover article, Still Separate, Still Unequal?, also includes several video clips online that are worth a look.