Sentences with phrase «about school segregation»

First, it analyzes results from a nationally representative survey, which assessed Americans» perceptions of and ideas about school segregation.

The next question comes from a parent asking about school segregation and how to combat it.

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But Niebuhr said nothing about lynching, little about segregation, and once turned down King's request to sign a petition calling on the president to protect black children integrating Southern schools, Cone said.

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

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

Before proceeding, however, it is important to revisit what we know about the continued significance of school segregation.

The judge's 72 - page decision barely addressed civil - rights lawyers» arguments that the state constitution outlaws all school segregation, regardless of whether government action brought it about.

As a result, this simple correlation tells us nothing about whether charters increase segregation or just tend to locate in areas where the schools are already segregated.

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.

This week, Paul speaks to Gregorio Caetano and Vikram Maheshri about their paper, «Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation: 1988 - 2014.»

Though Tacoma had only about 7,000 blacks — out of a total population of about 160,000 — our minority housing, like that in many cities, was concentrated in one area and served by schools then in violation of our state's de facto segregation rule.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

«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.»

On the first two «costs» the book provides no evidence of harm, other than summary statements about segregation, expressing concern that «education programs that serve low - income and minority students have become quite different from those that serve the rest of the student population,» (p. 225) and that «charter schools have moved the country farther away from the collective and democratic forms of education.»

As school educators, we need to be clear about when segregation of areas is needed.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populSchool for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populschool rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West, associate editor of Education Next, talks with Steven Rivkin, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about how school segregation has changed since the 1960s.

And what do we know about the consequences of school segregation for students?

At the time there were four other cases about segregation in public schools.

A recent review of media articles about charter schools in just the past year found that: • Charter schools are increasing segregation and excluding children with the greatest need (research studies from NYU, Rutgers, Western Michigan University, media reports from Orlando, L.A., New Orleans).

· The 74: «This Is About Power and Control»: Advocates Push Back on Weingarten for Linking School Choice to Segregation

I contacted Anna and expressed my concerns about these schools, not only taking money from our public schools, but also contributing to segregation.

Among the highlights was the panel on segregation with Hechinger's Emmanuel Felton, who wrote about school districts seceding in Jefferson County in Birmingham, AL. «We wanted to zoom in on where segregation was getting worse the most rapidly,» said Felton.

Betsy DeVos on HBCUs as «school choice» vs. basic historical facts about segregation on her own department's website pic.twitter.com/b6fs5v78W 0

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.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

Bylines, stories, and outlets that aren't on the list include Erica Green's steady and insightful coverage of Betsy DeVos for the New York Times, NPR's deep series about school choice and vouchers, Benjamin Herold's deep dive into personalized learning for Education Week, Alvin Chang's amazing Vox story on segregation, and the Baltimore Sun's series on integration (which recently won a National Headliner Award).

If they were serious about ending segregation there would be regional schools, it is so silly that West Hartford schools can't be «segregated» but it's ok that a town away Avon is totally segregated and that is ok.

Because school segregation is as much a story of failed public policy as it is one of white / privileged families thwarting it, our hearts - and - minds campaign offers a new model for integration in which this undertaking falls not on the backs of marginalized communities, but on white and / or privileged families who care about equity.

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The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

Weingarten's cynical attempt to flip the definition of segregation, which has always referred to systemic efforts to exclude minorities from schools, neighborhoods, and elsewhere, is particularly hypocritical in light of the Wall Street Journal's revelations about UFT Charter School.

Black parents and teachers care about more than the consequences of school segregation and neighborhood violence.

The findings about segregation from «A Win - Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice» are not ambiguous.

This is an argument that needs to be taken seriously — especially by certain leaders of charter schools who seem unconcerned about rising segregation in charters.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.

NAACP has already released a national statement about charter schools, saying they do not believe it is the direction we should be headed towards, particularly because they increase segregation and take resources away from the public school district.

«Sweden, where the free schools idea came from, is expressing real concerns about segregation and divisiveness in the same way that concerns are being expressed about the charter schools in the US,» she said.

Read the report, «Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» by E. Frankenberg, G. Siegel - Hawley, and J. Wang, including the supplement, «What People Are Saying About «Choice Without Equity»» and state fact sheets.

The exception being a recent DPS board retreat where there was some discussion about what might be done to mitigate against Denver's school segregation.

Dr. Muhammad will lead a discussion, featuring Dr. Noliwe Rooks (author of «Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education»), about education policy.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

That economic diversity is a core value of the school, Densen told Gambit in December in a broad article about the 4.0 Schools project, as he seeks to create a learning environment inclusive of all income levels that bridges the gap between New Orleans» often rigid segregation between tuition - based private schools and impoverished public sSchools project, as he seeks to create a learning environment inclusive of all income levels that bridges the gap between New Orleans» often rigid segregation between tuition - based private schools and impoverished public sschools and impoverished public schoolsschools.

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.

In UCLA's study about New York State school segregation, Kuscera and Orfield write, «data also indicate that as a school becomes more minority, the school will also become more low - income and, as such, is twice as likely to exhibit educational opportunities and outcomes.»

Our Top Pick in nonfiction for June is Kristen Green's Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County, a personal and probing look at school segregation in one Southern community.

A story not often covered in history texts, Susan E. Goodman's The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, illustrated by the great E.B. Lewis, pays tribute to a young black girl and her family's efforts to bring about equal education in the public schools of mid-19th-century America.