Yesterday's Review Term

Sorry for slacking yesterday - the senioritis must be wearing off onto me.

BUZZWORDS OF THE DAY: de facto segregation AND de jure segregation

WHAT THEY MEAN: de facto segregation is when there is segregation of schools and other public facilities through circumstance with no law supporting it. An example would be neighborhoods of predominately one minority group, all feeding into the same public school. Because of where people choose to live (or can afford to live), the school ends up as segregated.
de jure segregation is segregation by law or policy. This was made illegal by the Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education decision.