Between 2000 and 2010, neighborhoods in almost all metropolitan areas experienced increases in interracial contact, but
public school integration lagged behind.
Now, Brown University has brought the social - science discipline of spatial analysis to bear on this question, and has put the resulting data on the Web at the fascinating site The State
of Public School Integration.
Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of
the public school integration mandate.»