The Kerner Commission Report, published in 1967, provided leaders throughout the United States with a review of racial disparities in multiple civil organizations and recommended remedies to the wide-ranging unjust traditions. In this writing, Darling-Hammond identifies public education’s successes and failures in the ensuing half-century since that document was penned. Subsequently, she describes the actions required to bring the dream of educational equity to fruition.
Darling-Hammond, L. 2018. Kerner at 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred. Learning Policy Institute, April 2018. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/kerner-50-educational-equity-still-dream-deferred?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=3c852c6680-LPIMC_Kerner_Jackson_Blog_20180426&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-3c852c6680-73621275 (accessed April 27, 2018).
The resource highlights how racial segregation in schools is still a relevant and consequential issue in America. The resource provides practitioners with a critical lens as they think about the demographic trends in the districts they work in.
Orfield, G., and Lee, C. “Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.” Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., 2006.
