Sentences with phrase «economic school segregation»

The authors used three indices to measure different dynamics of economic school segregation: the Isolation of Poverty Index; the Isolation of Wealth Index; and the Hypersegregation Index.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

Not exact matches

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

Even where schools do legally discriminate on religious grounds, this can lead to ethnic, socio - economic and religious segregation of pupils in practice and create wider problems for social cohesion and equality.

Polls have consistently revealed that the vast majority of the public — as many as 73 % — oppose religious selection of any kind in state - funded schools, and research has found time and time again that religiously selective schools worsen religious, ethnic, and socio - economic segregation in their local areas.

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.

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

Many critics assert that voucher programs will undermine civic values, promote racial or socio - economic segregation, prompt schools to discriminate based on student ability, and undermine the public commitment to failing schools.

Opponents feel, however, that since charter schools can only serve a small segment of students, they only reinforce economic and racial segregation, and actually destabilize the communities they claim to want to help.

Economic, demographic, segregation and schooling characteristics explain roughly three - quarters of the geographic variation in these gaps.

But there has to be enough oomph of one kind or another — moral, economic, political, judicial, even occasionally (in the case of school segregation) military — behind these kinds of changes for them to overcome resistance and gain real traction.

To shed light on the issue of economic segregation, the authors engaged in a study to find the most and least segregated school districts nationwide.

Third, CAP partnered with EdBuild, a national nonprofit and policy studies organization, and analyzed data from more than 1,700 school districts to evaluate economic segregation within each district.

The most effective way to address this economic segregation in today's public school system is through school choice.

EdBuild conducted a quantitative analysis of over 1,700 school districts to measure economic segregation within each district, or intradistrict segregation.

But deeply ingrained and pervasive economic segregation in Austin's public schools is no isolated incident.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

While data may show economic integration at the school level, segregation can still take place at the classroom level due to tracking or differences in treatment, supports, and services students receive.

Since economic segregation closely mirrors racial segregation, integrating schools by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.

In one of her speeches, she called attention to economic segregation, a «de facto segregation,» in our school system.

Hartford, Connecticut, has significantly reduced economic segregation in its schools through a strategic system of student transfers called Open Choice.124

Despite these efforts, economic segregation within school systems has grown worse.

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

CAP's latest analysis shows that economic segregation still exists at high levels in the public schooling system.

Margonis and Parker (1995) argue that further segregation is likely through school choice and that proposals leveraging school choice without proper attention to race and economic inequity «threaten to legitimate the most drastic educational inequalities in our society» (375).

One study, for instance, found that among the country's largest 100 school districts, economic segregation between schools in the same district has risen 40 percent since 1970.36

This report aims to shed light on the ways economic segregation shapes the public schooling system.

This kind of information would enable school districts to: 1) thoughtfully address segregation issues, 2) allow schools to purposefully locate in areas that need more diverse schools, and 3) hold states publicly accountable for their effort (or lack of it) toward economic integration

This type of true public charter school would help silence the critics of certain charter schools that may be reinforcing racial and economic segregation, stripping control from local communities, «creaming» students, and inhibiting transparency of funding and accountability.

In other words, promoting school choice as the solution is a distraction from the basic fact that parent income, along with interrelated racial and economic segregation, remain powerful determinants in the quality of education a child receives.

In her remarks she stated, «More than 60 years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education and our nation's schools and communities still suffer from the vestiges of school segregation and many of our largest school districts remain starkly separated along racial and economic lines.

Indeed a hot topic this year has been the spotlight on the severe economic and racial segregation within New York City Public Schools (NYCPS).

I've argued in earlier columns that because charter schools aren't bound to geographic zones, they should be strategically placed to integrate areas where racial and economic segregation is reinforced by district lines.

For Public Schools, Segregation Then, Segregation Since: Education and the Unfinished March, by Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute, Aug. 27, 2013

As the department has stated publicly, «many schools and communities continue to suffer the effects of racial segregation, and that many of our nation's largest school districts remain starkly segregated along racial and economic lines.»

What isn't mentioned here, but has been by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely used mechanism of «choice» in the state, that is charter schools, has increased economic and ethnic segregation in the schools (see its study).

Many of those counties — Halifax and Lenoir — already struggle with providing and funding quality schools, and have economic and racial segregation in both school and in housing patterns, he said.

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.

The OECD has found that vouchers targeted specifically to low - income families significantly decrease socio - economic segregation between public and private schools compared to vouchers that any family can use, regardless of income.

«Religiously selective schools have been shown time and time again to have a large impact on segregation on religious, ethnic, on socio - economic lines, so allowing more schools to open that are fully religiously selective will only exacerbate those problems.»

«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.

«I think segregation and economic inequality are the root causes of school failure in this country.

Revise policies that further marginalize students, such as those that result in the under - enrollment of students of color in high - level classes or assign students to schools in ways that result in racial and economic segregation.

Jack A. Chambless calls for letting schools compete for students and ending segregation by economic status.

In fact, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act perpetuates school - based segregation, giving «upward of $ 70 billion to continue to reinforce patterns of racial and economic separation in American Schools.»

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

A Status Quo of Segregation: Racial and Economic Imbalance in New Jersey Schools, 1989 - 2010.

In the country's 100 largest school districts, economic segregation rose roughly 30 percent from 1991 to 2010.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.