Editing Universal access to education (section)

== Access to education by law ==
[[File:No Child Left Behind Act.jpg|thumb|275px|[[U.S. President|President]] [[George W. Bush]] signing the [[No Child Left Behind Act]]]]
In 2009, both the houses of the Indian Parliament and the President of India both signed and approved a bill that would grant free law mandated education for children ages six to fourteen.<ref name=foo>{{cite journal|last1=Dubey|first1=Muchkund|title=The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009: The Story of a Missed Opportunity|journal=Social Change|date=2010|volume=40|pages=1–13|doi=10.1177/004908570904000102|s2cid=144846615}}</ref> It was considered a major step towards universal education for all. Muchkund Dubey author of the article “The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 : The Story of Missed Opportunity" discusses and highlights the issues of access, quality of education, financial implication, and discrimination.<ref name=foo/>

In the United States, Brown vs. Board of Education was a landmark decision because it found and declared that, “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand"|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/|website=Library of Congress|date=13 November 2004|access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> This began the process of desegregation in many schools that had not desegregated yet.<ref name=bar>{{cite book|last1=Kozol|first1=Jonathan|title=The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America|url=https://archive.org/details/shameofnationres00kozo|url-access=registration|date=2005|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/shameofnationres00kozo/page/6 6]|isbn=9781400052448}}</ref> The significance of Brown vs. Board was the universal right of all students to attend educational institutions equally rather than using racial segregation to separate students. Jonathan Kozol, author of The Shame of the Nation,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/the-shame-of-the-nation-separate-and-unequal.html|title='The Shame of the Nation': Separate and Unequal|last=Glazer|first=Nathan|work=The New York Times |date=25 September 2005 |access-date=2018-07-01|language=en}}</ref> talks about how “physical conditions in these newly integrated schools were generally more cheerful…state of mind among the teachers and the children [was] more high-spirited” in the aftermath of desegregation.<ref name=bar/>