The united States Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS ranks among the most important rulings in the history of the Court. Despite 50 years of moderate improvements, African Americans and student of color still considerably lag behind their European counterparts. Classism has become the determining factor in which groups achieve more and which groups will be stratified to the lower rung, and the school system just may be the most important engine in perpetuating the dichotomy, and maintaining the status quo.

To further problematize the issue, schools aren’t the homogenous mixtures the advocates of Brown Vs. Board of Education envisioned. What we hope to illustrate is that although separate but equal may have been eradicated in theory, schools are as separate and unequal as anytime in history.