The Broken Cisterns of African American Education: Academic Performance and Achievement in the Post-Brown Era

The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post—segregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of post—segregated educational settings leads to the confusing and often conflicting interchangeable usage of terms desegregated, integrated and diversity. This ambituity is further confounded by the imprecise d...