Sentences with phrase «about racial segregation»

They do not complain about racial segregation.

«What I Can Do About Racial Segregation» or «Study and Action Suggestions.»

Kozol shares part of one conversation he had with several high school students about the racial segregation of their neighborhood and school:

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That list is comprised of stories about immigration and overcoming racial segregation and gender inequality.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia and her first experience of racial segregation.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Emancipation did not bring about an end to lynchings, segregation, and racial discrimination.

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

Keep in mind that the southern US states are a place where revisionism about the civil war, racial segregation, and the KKK were all a thing.

Again, comparing the segregation in charter schools in a state, which are concentrated in heavily minority central cities, to that in traditional public schools throughout the state, reveals nothing about the reality of racial segregation in charter schools.

I also agree with his points about the different normative salience of economic as opposed to racial segregation, the importance of policy with respect to economic (and racial) segregation, and the growth generally (though variably) of both kinds of segregation.

«Residential mobility has brought about a high degree of racial segregation in education, as well as segregation by income... and it is the disadvantaged who are least able to select a school... that continues to function reasonably well.»

Congress was not about to outlaw racial segregation in 1954, for example, and plenty of prominent educators declared A Nation at Risk wrong in 1983.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Jim Crow Laws Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Jim Crow which were state and locals laws used to enforce racial segregation in the southern states of the country [Southern United States].

Starting this fall, Louisiana must provide the agency with timely information about the racial background of participating students each year so the Justice Department can monitor the program's effect on school segregation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday night.

It must wrestle with demographics of students and forecasted changes to those demographics, and be explicit about disrupting racial and socioeconomic segregation.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

Knowing what we do about the historical background of housing segregation along with the impact of funding on school quality, it is clear that, across income and racial or ethnic groups, the access to high - scoring schools is severely unequal.

Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.