New Dimensions in Education

Discrimination is hydra-headed: put down here, it reappears there. Foremost among the factors accounting for its regenerative powers has been the tradition of Federal neutrality toward discriminatory practices by recipients of Federal financial assistance. In theory, the Federal Government has been neutral; in practice, it has been a silent partner in discrimination. Addressing himself to this point, William L. Taylor, Staff Director of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, has depicted Federal policy as somewhat less than neutral: . . in far too many instances the Federal Government has helped to perpetuate inequality in education . . . and generally to subsidize the discriminatory practices of local governments and institutions

Civil rights · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Public Administration