How We're Still Failing, 60 Years After Brown v. Board Of Education

It's Been 60 Years And We're Still Failing
A black student, Nathaniel Steward, 17, recites his lesson surrounded by white fellows and others black students, 21 May 1954 at the Saint-Dominique school, in Washington, where for the first time in USA the Brown v Board of Education decision which outlaws segregation in state schools is applied. (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP/GettyImages)
A black student, Nathaniel Steward, 17, recites his lesson surrounded by white fellows and others black students, 21 May 1954 at the Saint-Dominique school, in Washington, where for the first time in USA the Brown v Board of Education decision which outlaws segregation in state schools is applied. (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP/GettyImages)

Two milestones in the history of American education are converging this spring. The second is reshaping the legacy of the first.

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