THE UNENDING STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL EDUCATIONAL-OPPORTUNITY

This article finds that Brown has not fulfilled its promise of securin g equal educational opportunity for black children and that racial dis crimination in the nation's public school systems is still the norm. I n the great metropolitan areas of the country, demographic factors, se gregated housing, neighborhood assignment policies, and school distric t configurations clustering poor and minority children in school distr icts separate from the largely white surrounding areas mean that a gen eration or more of blacks will be educated in racially isolated school s in many of the urban centers of the country. Thus our immediate conc ern must be to require those racially isolated schools to produce qual ity education for the black children who must attend them. Educators m ust take the lead in the fight to make Brown's promise a reality, eval uating and monitoring the educational offerings provided for minority children to determine their quality and sufficiency. Educators should define and conceptualize equal educational opportunity in terms of its educational methodology, form, and content.