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After All These Years, Separate Still Looks Unequal
Resegration of American neighborhoods leaves kids of color disproportionately exposed to the challenges of growing up in homogeneously poor neighborhoods and going to inferior schools. Comparisons to their poor white counterparts show the latter more likely to live in economically mixed neighborhoods with correspondingly better schools. Will one day we hear renewed calls to desegregation of schools and communities? Continue reading
Posted in School Reform, Schools and Culture, Schools and Politics
Tagged African American graduation rate, Black Lives Matter, cognitive emotional development, desegregation, detrack, heterogeneous grouping, high poverty neighborhoods, low income kids of color, poor white students, resegregation, separate but unequal
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