55 Years Later, Doesn't Every Child Deserve an Education?

Today America marks the 55th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's historic victory in Brown v. Board of Education. If Marshall were alive, however, he would urge us to stop celebrating 1954 and start accepting responsibility for our complicity in the creation of a "separate but equal" education apartheid system – with one method of instruction for the poor and another for the privileged. In theory, the Brown decision represents the most hopeful threads of the American narrative: working within a system of laws to extend the promise of freedom, more fairly and fully, to each succeeding ...

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