Still Separate, Still Unequal: Education in America Seventy Years After Brown | Past Forward

American Experience presents a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring the state of educational equity in American schools nearly seventy years after Brown vs. Board of Education. This conversation is inspired by our two new films The Busing Battleground and The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools.

Panelists will discuss the meaning of educational equity, the state of equity in American public schools and the avenues through which to pursue it, examining what is lost when students of all backgrounds are not offered the same opportunities to thrive. They will also consider the roles that class and location play in determining who supports and opposes policy that supports educational equity. The panel will discuss whether these factors reflect the success or failure of the decision in Brown and in the broader movement for school integration.

Panelists:

Dr. Ivory A. Toldson is the national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Negro Education. Previously, Dr. Toldson was appointed by President Barack Obama to devise national strategies to sustain and expand federal support to HBCUs as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He is also the author of Brill Bestseller, No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People.

Dr. Adrienne Dixson Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative. Her research primarily focuses on how race, class, and gender intersect and impact educational equity in urban schooling contexts. Dr. Dixson is the co-editor of CRT in Education: All God's Children Got a Song (2006, Routledge) and Handbook of Critical Race Theory and Education. Dr. Dixson is interested in how educational equity is mediated by school reform policies in the urban south. Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In 2021, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association. Since 2021, Dr. Dixson has served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in its new Race Equity Program and the Eddie Bernice Johnson NSF INCLUDES Program.

The discussion will be moderated by Sonya Douglass, Ed.D. Sonya is Professor of Education Leadership and Vice Chair of the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research examines educational leadership, policy, and politics with a focus on race and the history of Black education in the U.S. She is author of the award-winning book, Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis)Integration (Teachers College Press, 2011).

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