Sentences with phrase «by racial separation»

«The report also finds students increasingly isolated by poverty, which greatly intensifies the educational problems caused by racial separation.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

Not exact matches

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

It's here that the critics of single - sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and economic segregation in American public schools documented by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others.

However, the decline in segregation within school districts was partially offset by a growing degree of racial separation between school districts.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Looking at the maps, visitors can see how cities were divided by racial groups and environmental risks and how these separations led to past state actions (and inactions) and present - day American problems.

In the decades leading up to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, racial segregation was a de jure practice, meaning the separation was enforced by law.