Sentences with phrase «ethnic segregation»

I also work on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority students.

By contrast, levels of ethnic segregation are high among school - age children.

There are also concerns that charter advantages are rooted in new patterns of racial / ethnic segregation because white and minority families may choose schools with more children of the same race or ethnicity.

The Century Foundation has published a report by Halley Potter that claims private school choice will increase ethnic segregation in schools.

These included violations of international standards for due process (such as illegal detention); discriminatory privileges based on ascribed ethnicity; draconian enforced ethnic segregation in all parts of life; comprehensive restrictions on individual liberties, such as movement and expression; a dual legal system based on ethno - national identity; denationalisation (denial of citizenship) and a system of laws specially designed to punish any Palestinians who resisted the system.

Nine of those studies found that school choice provided a more integrated classroom experience, one found no visible difference, and no empirical study had ever found that a school choice program made ethnic segregation worse.

There are a number of serious methodological challenges involved in empirical research on how education policies affect ethnic segregation.

Within the limitations of available data and methods, the empirical evidence is very encouraging for private school choice on ethnic segregation — just as it is on academic outcomes, effects on public schools, fiscal effects and effects on civic values and practices.

The straightforward, unembellished third - person narration describes Edi's life as it was before the war, when he lived in Serbia under strict ethnic segregation laws that denied Kosovars many basic civil rights, such as education and fair pay.

As we look at the evidence on private school choice — the actual evidence, not speculation — we should consider it in comparison with the continuing epidemic of ethnic segregation in the public school system.

A recent report by Halley Potter of the Century Foundation claims that educational choice increases ethnic segregation.

Reviewing all of the empirical research on school choice last year, I found that 10 studies had been conducted that examine the relationship between school choice and ethnic segregation in some respect.

I think when you grow up around racism, around racial and ethnic segregation, you realize that that the world is very aware of an individual's race.

Like Fiske and Ladd, the Smithfield Project found that dezoning caused a slight rise in ethnic segregation.

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

Nine out of the 10 studies that have been conducted report positive findings on the actual, real - world impact of school choice programs when it comes to ethnic segregation.

So this study actually found the voucher program created a significant net decrease in ethnic segregation!

Social and ethnic segregation is introduced through maps based on Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago and London.

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).

Second, interdistrict magnet schools in Hartford and its suburbs are one of the ways that the State of Connecticut chose to comply with the Sheff v. O'Neill decision, a local court case on public education and racial / ethnic segregation.

At the core of the debate is the fundamental principle that federal and state laws prohibit the use of public funds to promote racial and ethnic segregation.

But ethnic segregation is not the only kind of segregation about which concerns are raised.

Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and private schools in terms of working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.