In many respects, today's public schools are as segregated as they were when earnest desegregation first began in the 1970's.  Although making tremendous strides during the 1970's and early 1980's, most of our schools have resegregated.  Moreover, in many respects, these schools are unequal.  The Center's research focuses on identifying these inequalities and studying the effects they have on children's education.  Derek Black's article, In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal, is forthcoming in the Wake Forest Law Review.  It examines how racial isolation limits the options that school districts have for delivering quality and equal education to their students.  The article concludes that voluntary desegregation efforts are essential elements in school districts that are committed to fulfilling their state constitutional obligations to deliver quality education to all students.  Thus, voluntary desegregation should be at the core of education reforms and provided appropriate legal deference.
    In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation, Article Abstract

    Additional Desegregation Resources
        The Civil Rights Project http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/deseg_gen.php
        NAACP Legal Defense Fund http://www.naacpldf.org/issues.aspx?issue=1
      Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, Harvard Law School http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=100083