Achievement Quote by Jonathan Kozol

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

— Alphonso Jackson

“Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational…

— William Raspberry

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that…

— Will Smith

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

— Bill Cosby

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't…

— Brianna Wu

“The larger purpose of school integration was to solve the American dilemma, but integration had three specific goals of its own: Lift black academic…

— Jared Taylor

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

— Jonathan Kozol

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to…

— Dana Goldstein

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander