Segregation And Its Desegative Consequences For Education Essay

SEGREGATION AND ITS NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR EDUCATION

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After the Civil War and abolishment of slavery, segregation of the races remained. This prejudice penetrated all life spheres including education, which impeded the progress of minorities. African­Americans had difficulties in obtaining high­quality education at the public schools that were severely underfunded.i In 1952, the decision in Brown vs. Board of

Education changed the history of education in America by beginning desegregation.ii The Supreme Court ruled that “separate schools were inherently unequal” and, therefore, unconstitutional, as Clotfelter.iii This court decision revived the ideals of the Fourteenth Amendment for all citizens of the United States. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act gave this decision a legal platform.iv However, long decades of segregation brought negative consequences detrimental for the education of African­Americans. Segregation led to poor education quality and took

Even though desegregation amended the effects of racial discrimination at school, some of its negative effects still exist. For generations, public schools received much less funding than private schools, where the children of the majority groups studied. In public educational institutions, these unequal resourcing produced the deficit in teaching materials and teachers, who received a meager salary at African­American schools. Even the end of segregation did not stop the inequality in education because the racial tensions produced an unfavorable educational environment for ethnical minorities. African­American students suffered from the lack of resources that impeded their integration into multicultural schools. These negative effects of segregation are still present in economically disadvantaged areas, which often coincide with the minorities’