The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Brief Amici Curiae of the National Education Association, et al., in Support of Respondents in Gratz v. Bollinger, et al.

Legal Brief - February 18, 2003 -

• Diversity in education helps to prepare students to function in an ever-increasing multiracial society
  
• Inequitable apportionment of educational opportunities by race; race still matters when it comes to public elementary and secondary schooling
  
• Diversity promotes tolerance and lessens stereotypes and prejudice
  
• Racially diverse classrooms promote cross-racial understanding
  
• Classroom interactions with different racial backgrounds increases academic and intellectual skills of all students