Forty-five years after the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision, the United States still faces the realities of institutional resistance to change. This special issue reviews the past decade of work by the Southern Regional Council to overcome inequality in education in the context of that organization's long struggle. Selections explore past accomplishments and present needs. The following articles are included: (1) "Reshaping Education Forty-Five Years after "Brown" (Wendy S. Johnson); (2) "Lessons Learned: A Decade of Education Reform" (Sarah Ellen Torian); (3) "Tracking Hurts Children" (Maria Klenbort); (4) "The Right Attacks Public Schools" (Barbara Miner); (5) "Promote Educational Success" (Gregory Malhoit); (6) "Voucher Push Moves South" (Ellen Spears); (7) "Education Is Key to Eliminating Racial Inequality" (Southern Regional Council); (8) "Schools In Conflict" (Leslie Dunbar); (9) "Title I Reauthorization" (Diane Piche); (10) "Standards Reform" (M. Hayes Mizell); (11) "Completing the Circle, Part II"; and (12) "Grace and Guts: Virginia Foster Durr, 1903-1999." (SLD)