Sentences with phrase «economic segregation»

However, any formula that offers higher - poverty schools — or districts — greater funding per poor pupil provides an incentive for economic segregation of students in order to maximize federal funding.

Such economic segregation tends to hurt minority students most.

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

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, is the author of All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools Through Public School Choice, and is working on a book on economic segregation in housing and education.

Inequitable funding systems in Illinois and other states promote economic segregation by making local areas overly dependent on local funding for schools.

An analysis about economic segregation released by EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on education funding, shows that the 50 most segregated school districts have childhood poverty rates 40 percentage points different from those of their neighbors.

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.

«This rhetoric leads only to greater socio - economic segregation across schools and reinforces further socio - economic disadvantage.»

«The growing income gap and increased economic segregation may lead to inequalities in children's test scores, educational attainment, and well - being,» Owens said.

A flat per - poor - pupil grant (such as through portability) would neither incentivize economic segregation, nor provide high - poverty schools additional funds for meeting their disproportionate needs; Title I does both.

In this brief post, I want to focus on how we tend to talk about racial and economic segregation at the K - 12 level and how this differs markedly from how we talk about the same thing at the university and college level.

A good example is in Professor Clotfelter's post, where he writes that «economic segregation almost inevitably means unequal access to the best teachers and other resources.»

«Areas where there's more concentrated poverty — more economic segregation — tend to have lower rates of upward mobility,» says Harvard economist Nathan Hendren.

Northeastern metro areas with relatively high levels of economic segregation exhibit the highest school test - score gaps between low - income students and other students.

Although the sample is not well suited for estimating national trends, the sheer number of districts in the sample identified as segregated suggests that many districts experience intense economic segregation and isolation.

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.

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.

As test scores correlate best with class status, this intensifies economic segregation.

I'm on EdBuild's research advisory board and I think they're doing fabulous work exposing economic segregation.

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.

Now economic segregation, largely along racial lines, has prevailed.

Substantial racial and socio - economic segregation continues today, and vast disparities exist between the wealthiest and poorest districts.

At the time Gordon reached out to her, Dragon had been searching for a high - achieving public school for her own children, but was struck by the paradox of racial and economic segregation prevalent in public schools in even the most diverse of the city's neighborhoods.

Racial and economic segregation affects schools in various ways.

Through an examination of the history of Chocolate Cities, and an interrogation of current challenges such as economic segregation and gentrification as a form of cultural castration, this exhibition will open up a discourse on historical legacy as well as methods of sustainability in the face of a rapidly changing cultural and economic landscape.

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.

In his landmark 1966 report «Equality of Educational Opportunity,» sociologist James S. Coleman suggested that socio - economic segregation of schools contributed to variation in learning but that factors such as facilities and spending mattered little.

«When we talk about economic segregation, we have to get our priorities right as a government here in the city of Albany,» and also as the Democratic Party, he said.

Discriminatory housing practices create racial and economic segregation in communities that can lead to disparate outcomes in overall quality of life.

Perhaps most fundamentally, if cities are segregated, policies that help keep households in place can reinforce existing racial and economic segregation.

Economic segregation in the U.S. has become even more prevalent over the last 35 years, as wealth among the most affluent has increased dramatically while the rest of the working population deals with stagnant pay or worse.

Inequality and economic segregation are central features of the New Urban Crisis.

The New York Times says if Cuomo is serious about fixing the state's public education system, he'll find a remedy for racial and economic segregation and the funding inequities that have spurred legal challenges.

While Mayor de Blasio and schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña have long promised to fix racial and economic segregation in city classrooms, the problem has persisted.

They also call for affirmative measures to reduce racial and socio - economic segregation, which is the most extreme in New York of any state in the nation.

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.