Of course, the Brown decision did not miraculously desegregate schools. It has been a long hard battle with much resistance. Little Rock Central High School was to begin the 1957 school year desegregated. On September 2, the night before the first day of school, Governor Faubus announced that he had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to monitor the school the next day. When a group of nine black students arrived at Central High on September 3, they were barred from entering by the National Guardsmen. On September 20, Judge Davies gra

One dramatic way in which neighborhoods may affect social mobility and quality of life is through their influence on educational outcomes of young residents. Previous research has found that dropout rates in severely distressed neighborhoods are more than three times higher as those in non-poverty neighborhoods and that the jobless rates for young high school dropouts in distressed urban neighborhoods are often over 80%. The social disorganization experienced by inner city residents result in several major social problems, including prevalence of delinquent subcultures, the weakening of basic institutions, and the lack of social control, all of which contribute to the high rate of educational failure in inner-city neighborhoods. (118)

Wilson, William Julias. The Declining Signifcance of Race. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978.

The inequities in government funding of public schools has a direct effect on the quality of education received by the students. As a rule, schools located in low-income areas receive far less money per student than those in middle class areas as documented in an article from Black Issues in Higher Education:

Park, Jennifer. ¡§Deciding Factors.¡¨ Education Week. Vol. 22, Issue 17 (January 9, 2003): p17.

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