Sentences with phrase «economic segregation of»

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.

Difference is, the Sheff efforts are rooted in Brown vs. Board of Education and other Civil Rights legislation, whereas the Common Core and other «reformy» actions are untried ploys that ultimately will increase the racial and economic segregation of our Two Connecticuts and further widen the achievement gap for our students.

Not exact matches

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

«However, due to occupational segregation and the devaluation of jobs that women disproportionately hold, outdated labor standards, and insufficient work - family policies, women in the United States aren't able to meet their full economic potential.»

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

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

Moreover, the even - handedness of the GI Bill enabled West's father and many of his peers to buy a home, get a college education and obtain health insurance — all of which gave economic mobility to African - Americans even under segregation.

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

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.

The variation is so extreme due to histories of de jure residential segregation, federal housing policies until the last thirty years or so, and histories of economic development and migration that vary from place to place.

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.

«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.

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.

Urban Renewal: Chicago, 1965 When cities of the future were imagined in the 1920s and»30s, they did not include areas of economic depression or racial and social segregation.

The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families, economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services by middle - income families.

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.

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?

It explores the relationship between racial and economic segregation, and discusses the implications of these trends and the possible policy alternatives.

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.

«These were affluent women tired of economic and racial segregation.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The recent literature on economic segregation lists some specific drivers of increased isolationism, and the authors look at those topics in turn.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.