Dr. LaMar Miller Conference Chair and Executive Director Emeritus, Metro Center

Richard Riley Former U.S. Education Secretary

Brown II: With All

Deliberate Speed

NATIONAL EDUCATION LEADERS ISSUE REPORT TO STIMULATE CHANGES IN POLICIES TO ENHANCE DIVERSITY, ACHIEVEMENT IN U.S. SCHOOLS

A consortium of national education leaders, including former U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley, will release "With All Deliberate Speed," which offers a series of recommendations to address the issues of achievement, citizenship, and diversity in American education, on Mon., Nov. 14, 10 a.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life (60 Washington Square South, Room 909 [at LaGuardia Place]). Also to be released will be “Responding to Hurricane Katrina Through Education,” a consortium study that discusses the links among the issues of poverty, race, and education. The project is under direction of Dr. Lamar Miller, Executive Director Emeritus, Metro Center and funded in part by The Rockefeller Foundation and with the financial support of The McGraw-Hill Companies and Time Warner.

New York University, New York

Achievement, Citizenship and Diversity in American Education

Monday, November 14, 2005

This paper is written for the express purpose of beginning a new conversation about quality and diversity in our nation’s public schools. The fact that so many public schools in the United States are segregated by race, ethnicity and income stands in sharp contrast to the integration of the American workplace, our armed forces and the many civic and religious communities that make up our society. This is a vexing problem that we cannot ignore.

This paper suggests that America in 2005 is not the America of 1954 and that many of the appropriate actions taken to integrate our schools at that time may not be useful now. In 1954, our schools alone were asked to carry the full burden of integration. In 2005, any effort to reach across racial boundaries in school and out of school must be based on a new school-and-community compact.

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