This special issue commemorates and reassesses the educational effects of the Brown decision. The articles are grounded in theories and methods of several disciplines, including law, philosophy, economics, political science, sociology, and public

Volume 79, Number 2, 2004 Contents: K.K. Wong, Guest Editor's Preface. J.W. Guthrie, M.G. Springer, Returning to Square One: From Plessy to Brown and Back to Plessy. R.L. Brown, A Commentary: Calming Brown's Critics, Still Queasy After All These Years. L.T. Outlaw, Jr., A Commentary: Brown v. Board of Education I: A Reconsideration. J. Lee, Multiple Facets of Inequity in Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps. C.T. Clotfelter, Private Schools, Segregation, and the Southern States. R.M. Straus, Reconstructing Los Angeles Magnet Schools: Representations in Newspapers. K.K. Wong, A.C. Nicotera, Brown v. Board of Education and the Coleman Report: Social Science Research and the Debate on Educational Equality. K.D. Syverud, Expert Report of Kent D. Syverud in Grutter v. Bollinger. F.E. Obiakor, C.A. Utley Educating Culturally Diverse Learners With Exceptionalities: A Critical Analysis of the Brown Case. D.B. Cornfield, A. Arzubiaga, Immigrants and Education in the U.S. Interior: Integrating and Segmenting Tendencies in Nashville, Tennessee.