(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Part One School segregation by race is extreme and increasing, despite the 1954 Brown decision. And, for many known reasons, these racial patterns clearly disadvantage blacks, Latinos, and other racial minorities. Today's courts are hostile to racially-based remedies and there is considerable resistance among the majority white … [Read more...] about “Symposium: Socioeconomic School Integration” (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
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Socio-economic integration is a good idea, but it is not the same as racial integration, may not provide some of the important advantages, does not have any enforceable basis in law, and often has been extremely controversial. It is true that students in isolated high-poverty schools and neighborhoods suffer disadvantages regardless of race, but the fact is that there are … [Read more...] about Response
