Brown at 60: Great Progress , A Long Retreat and Uncertain Future

URL: http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-60-great-progress-a-long-retreat-and-an-uncertain-future/Brown-at-60-051814.pdf

When we think of school desegregation and how it affects not only our K-12 school system , but access of higher education opportunities as well, I found the Brown at 60 article to be relevant to this question and concern. In reading Bell's and Cantor's articles for this week, I was quick to realize how it related to the Orfield and Frankenberg's Brown at 60 article. This article has reporting on how school segregation has had minimal change over the year since Brown v. Board of Education. There are also some statistical date findings that support the argument that school segregation is well alive in today's schools and affecting students from undeserved communities. 

In considering Affirmative Action and the topic of diversity in higher education, I was wondering how not addressing issues of school segregation and inequality can have a huge affect on students and their efforts to apply or qualify for higher education institutions.

In that case, how does Affirmative Action support students who are affected in their K-12 schooling? Then, how does diversity then be talked about or considered as an asset if students who could possible bring a different side/perspective of experiences be heard if they are not even present in higher education institutions?