The Harvard Civil Rights Project recently released a study examining the growing trend toward racial resegregation in America's schools. |
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The resegregation is happening faster, surprise surprise, down South than anywhere else. |
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Many people are now asking, What definition of merit will prevent the resegregation of top-ranked schools in the post-affirmative-action world? |
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Since the late 1970s many school systems have drifted toward de facto resegregation. |
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Specifically, the ferment expresses disillusionment with the failure of busing either to reverse the drift toward defacto resegregation of urban public schools or to improve the quality of the education those schools provide. |
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The meaning of the ongoing resegregation of our public schools becomes clearer if we look back at the campaign to integrate them — which was concerned less with race than with resources. |
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He also cites evidence of resegregation since the end of the court-ordered desegregation era. |
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A related claim is that school choice will cause resegregation of schools. |
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This continuing racial divergence in education has been set in social concrete by the exhaustion of busing policies and the acceleration of voluntary resegregation. |
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And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
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