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Article: Panelists discuss Brown vs. Board of Education.
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- December 20, 2004
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Fifty years after the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, communities are still looking for ways to provide a good education to all students.
Prominent local education leaders discussed the long-term impact of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling at a discussion entitled Meeting the Promise: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: A Discussion on How to Reach Equity in Education.
The discussion, sponsored by the National League of Cities and the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI), took place at the Charles Sumner School in Washington, D.C. The Sumner school opened in 1872 as the first public school in ...