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Grounded in Supreme Court reasoning from Brown v. Board of Education, it argues that segregation inflicts educational and moral harm on children of color and also damages white students by reinforcing distorted beliefs and unhealthy coping mechanisms. 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Kahlenberg, Halley Potter, and Kimberly Quick  \nP  \nublic schools have always been meant to provide all children with the skills and knowledge to become successful participants in the economy. But in the age of Donald Trump, a second important purpose of public education  \nhas become more salient: to promote social cohesion in a diverse and fractured democracy. As ugly and naked racism in America is further unveiled, how can schools be a tool for combating racism and promoting unity?  \nIdeas on a way forward can be found in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The court was explicit in describing the damage that school segregation  \nRichard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is the author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (2007) anda coauthor of Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right (2012). Halley Potter is a seniorfellow at The Century Foundation and a coauthor, with Kahlenberg, of A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education (2014). Kimberly Quick is a student at Harvard Law School and a former senior policy associate at The Century Foundation. This article draws upon three Century Foundation reports: A Bold Agenda for School Integration, Fostering Intergroup Contact in Diverse Schools, and Integrating Classrooms and Reducing Academic Tracking.  \ninflicted on children of color. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the unanimous opinion,“To separate [black students] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generatesa feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their heartsand mindsin away unlikely ever tobe undone.”1  \nLess discussed, both in the court opinion and in public discourse, is the body of research that outlines the educational and moral damage that segregation inflicts on white children. In the Appendix to the Appellants’ Briefs submitted by the NAACP, psychologists and social scientists warned that segregation teaches white children to “gain personal status in an unrealistic and nonadaptive way,” preventing them from developing the skill of selfevaluation based on their own meritsand abilities. The researchers noted that white children, in an effort to square the racial caste system they witness with the messaging ofa meritocratic “American dream,” often internalize false narratives and develop unhealthy coping mechanisms “in an attempt to protect themselves from recognizing the essential injustice of their unrealistic fears and hatreds of minority groups.”2  \nThe researchers go on to state that this misalignment of stated American values and shown American racism causes some children to respond by intensifying hostility toward people who are different than them, or by “developing an unwholesome, rigid, and uncritical idealization of all authority figures—their parents [and] strong political and economic leaders.” In short, school  \n26 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | FALL 2019  \nsegregation—an anti-democratic and racist practice—develops these same negative traits in the children who experience it.  \nSegregation harms both students of color and white students, and it damages the social fiber of the nation. This country’s refusal to un-design the systems devised to separate and marginalize has resulted in racial animus, social discord, and cultural ignorance. But this need not be our inheritance. Just as segregation causes and is caused by racism and white supremacy, school integration can be a powerful anti-racist tool.  \nAt a time when our democracy is fractured along the fault lines of race, ethnicity, and religion, and when social mobility has stalled, high-quality integrated public schools could take us on a better path forward. Racial and socioeconomic school integration has proven to be one of the most powerful st","cbCaihLQqMbhJCQx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihLQqMbhJCQx","pdf",228953,"English","# School Integration\n## How It Promotes Social Cohesion and Combats Racism\n# Education as an Anti-Racist Tool\n## Brown v. Board of Education and the Harm of Segregation\n# Benefits of Integrated Schools\n## Civic and Socioemotional Outcomes for All Students\n## Reducing Racial Bias and Countering Stereotypes","[{\"question\":\"What is the central argument for why school integration matters in a diverse democracy?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that integration helps promote social cohesion and unity, serving as an anti-racist tool in a democracy fractured by race, ethnicity, and religion.\"},{\"question\":\"According to Brown v. 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