Argues for the need to render schools that Black children attend more educationally effective regardless of the feasibility of making those schools integrated. Further argues that racial-balance remedies do not guarantee the equal education demanded by the "Brown" decision and that the all-Black schools that persist need not be…

This paper reviews numerous court cases which have dealt with desegragation and discusses the impact these have had on the educational opportunities of urban, minority children. Particular attention is given to the failure of desegregation efforts to achieve stable racial balances in urban school districts. Attempts by the courts to deal with this…