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Updated Jan. 2 |聽Clarification: An earlier version of this story failed to note that Justice Breyer will not be contributing new material to the book. A Brookings spokesperson subsequently clarified that the institution is “publishing his [Supreme Court] decision with additional annotations and context from another legal scholar.” Both the Brookings press office and coauthor Thiru Vignarajah 鈥� a former law clerk of Breyer’s who will be writing the book’s introduction 鈥� declined to comment for the original story.

The Brookings Institution that it will publish a book based on a magisterial dissent by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer from a case on racially segregated classrooms decided a decade ago.

Against Segregation in America’s Schools, tentatively scheduled for publication in 2019, will re-release Breyer’s dissent with additional updates on trends in segregation from the years that followed. While a press release from Brookings lists Breyer as the author of the book, the only material provided by the judge will be , said Brookings media manager Carrie Engel.

Racial integration in American schools, both at the K-12 and postsecondary levels, has been one of the major focal points of Breyer鈥檚 judicial career. He has to the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling against legal segregation in Brown v. Board of Education 鈥� and the subsequent confrontation between President Dwight Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus 鈥� as a turning point for American democracy and the rule of law.

In , Breyer described the previous year鈥檚 Grutter v. Bollinger case, during which he voted with the majority to uphold the use of race as an admissions criterion in public universities, as 鈥渢he most important case鈥� he had yet participated in as a member of the high court.

鈥淚f we cannot bring a degree of diversity into institutions across the United States, we will not have a country that will function as a democracy,鈥� he said. 鈥淚f people don’t feel that 鈥榠t鈥檚 our country too,鈥� how is this Constitution supposed to work?鈥�

The progress of integration has often been questioned in the six decades since Brown v. Board, and heated battles over school choice in just the past few years have brought new attention to the issue. Most recently, by the Associated Press argued that urban charter schools were warehousing minority children in all-black enclaves.

Pushback to the author鈥檚 conclusions followed quickly from charter school allies and others in the education reform community. At 蜜桃影视, academic and charter advocate Robin Lake called its analysis 鈥渕isleading鈥� and 鈥渋rresponsible,鈥� while the activist group Democrats for Education Reform on urban charters instead of predominantly white district schools in wealthy suburbs.

Regardless of their preferred remedy, however, figures within academia and the policy world are increasingly voicing concern over the problem of racial isolation. By the measure of black-white exposure 鈥� the percentage of black students attending majority-white schools 鈥� segregation is now . Many observers have blamed the phenomenon on of public school districts by state and federal courts, which were the primary drivers of the integration movement of the 1950s and 鈥�60s.

The Supreme Court, led by a conservative majority for most of the past 50 years, has been particularly reluctant to compel local authorities to initiate greater integration among students of different races and ethnicities. Justice Breyer, a liberal appointed by President Bill Clinton to the court in 1994, has previously (and unsuccessfully) argued against majority decisions that undermined local integration measures.

In 1995, in one of the first cases he heard as an Associate Justice, Breyer joined a dissent against a 5鈥�4 majority in Missouri v. Jenkins, in which the court ruled that a local district court had overreached in compelling public schools in Kansas City to correct de facto school segregation through raising teacher salaries and creating magnet schools.

In a case that garnered , 2007鈥檚 Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, Breyer again dissented from a 5鈥�4 majority 鈥� this time penning a lacerating, 77-page opinion asserting that the court was betraying the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. The court鈥檚 decision in that case, which declared desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville unconstitutional because they expressly considered the race of district students as tiebreakers in public school placements, was a 鈥渞adical鈥� move away from precedent, he wrote.

In 20 minutes of impassioned remarks from the bench, the normally reserved judge struck an even starker tone, warning, 鈥淚t is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much.鈥�

聽will form the basis for the book to be published by Brookings Institution Press. Accompanying it will be updates on the status of school integration since 2007, during which time few would claim matters have improved. Large-scale examinations of attempted integration efforts in places like Ferguson, Missouri, have indicated that resistance among local parents to incoming black students from surrounding areas has not dissipated. Meanwhile, conservative scholars like the Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Salim Furth have argued that drawing the boundaries of school districts to cohere with segregated geographies of wealth and privilege will inherently lead to racial segregation.

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