sixty one years ago, the united states supremecourt in brown v. board i removed jim crow from the front of the classroom. a year later,in 1955, the supreme court said in brown v. board ii that we need to move with all deliberatespeed to make sure that we open up the doors of opportunity to millions of students. sixtyyears later, we've done some great things. we have more do to. so what now?
Brown V.S Board Of Education 1954, there are two schools of thought regardingthe success of brown v. board of education. first is color-coding classrooms. and thereare well-meaning and intentioned people, very smart, who believe the best thing we can dofor children is to make sure that kids of different races sit in the same classroom.that approach has been in place for almost
50 years with a mixed success. there's a second school of thought, and that'sstudent achievement. this is focused primarily on making sure that students of college arecareer-ready independent of the makeup of this class. for them, it's not so much tointegrate as much as it is to educate. if you look at the graduation rate in 1955 whenthe court rendered "with all deliberate speed" and compare it to today in 2015, there's beena tremendous increase, a, in the number of students who are graduating from high school,and we still have all ways to go, b, the number of students who are scoring proficient onnape, and, three, the students who are actually enrolling in college but also are graduatingfrom college. a lot of that would have been
impossible without the brown decision, andfor that, we should be thankful. within the public school system today, weactually have choice. one that i actually support is open enrollment. there are 22 statesin the country which allow open enrollment. and what will that do? it'll allow a mom anddad to send his or her child across the zip code line, or frankly across the school boardline, to attend a public school that's high-performing. and i think that's important. i think we shouldactually expand that, because, unfortunately, too many children today are trapped in zipcode with schools that simply do not work. we know today that 83% of the students whoattend a public school attend one in his or her zip code area. the open enrollment opportunityis really one about opening up access, and
i think it makes sense. so as we celebrate brown v. board of educationii 60 years later, we need to also realize that black kids weren't the only ones whobenefited. white kids, hispanics, asian, native american, frankly, all american children,benefited from the decision that made it possible for all of us to go to school. so as we celebrate,it's just not one group holding the flag saying, "we won." it's all children holding the flagsaying, "we have a better future, because we will win through education."
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