School Segregation

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/11/modern-day-segregation-in-public-schools/382846/

School segregation started being illegal in the 1950s with the victory of Brown V. Board of Education (1954). However, the affects of school segregation for 60 years still effect students today. Orfield and Frankenberg summarize in Standardized testing and school segregation: like tinder for fire?, that white children have achievement advantages because they were born more privileged and with more opportunities. Even though desegregation of schools was passed 64 years ago, Orfield reported that schools are just as segregated now as they were in the 1950s.

Research has shown that integration of schools is useful for students of color and white students because it diminishes racial stereotypes and helps the students with jobs in the future. They also feel safer and more included in society. There needs to be progress in integrated schools because kids on both sides are missing out on useful life experiences.

Modern-Day Examples
In 2014, a New Jersey school district was called out for discriminatory practices. The school district practiced "tracking", where students that put students on separate educational paths based on their performance of past years. This was seen as discrimination because it kept minority students from equal long-term achievement and favored white students. "Tracking" only perpetuates the achievement gap in America and segregates even integrated schools.