... improve academic performance, particularly for students who attend segregated, high-poverty schools. Studies show that school desegregation in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement benefitted black students academically and – at the very least – did not harm white students (Hochschild and Scovronick, 2003...

...Elizabeth Sturm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh, along with other materials on school segregation to address the question, is separate ever equal? Design/methodology/approach...