Teaching after Brown vs. Board of Education

Teaching after Brown vs. Board of Education

Statistics show that integrated education had a positive impact on the lives of black children.  The achievement gap between black and white children shrank between the years 1970-1990 because the black children were achieving higher grades.  This positive impact also carried on to the next generation.  So you have project and ask yourself what will be the outcome in the next couple of generations as the educational landscape becomes segregated once again?  And, the other consequence could be less racial tolerance….are we moving backwards to the 1950’s/1960’s again?  As far as the classroom I am volunteering in, there are no white children in that classroom. 

Regarding the videos on the blog, it was very disheartening to see the reactions of the black children to the black dolls. To see them associate “bad with black” and then have to point to the black doll that looked like them because of their skin color – very disturbing.   I thought the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise was constructive and demonstrative to impact the student’s thoughts about racial intolerance and discrimination……..Progressive thinking on the part of that teacher to educate her students about the racial tension all around them in 1968.