Eighty - two percent of
new white enrollments attended these schools, while only 13 percent and 9 percent of new Hispanic and black enrollments, respectively, attended them.
Not exact matches
To cite an extreme example, a
new NSF report on graduate
enrollments shows that the total pool of U.S. citizens and permanent residents pursuing S&E degrees has dropped by 10 % since peaking in 1993, and the number of
white U.S. graduate students in S&E has dropped by 20 %.
But in a
new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing
enrollment share of
white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.
We don't know their benefits because, since the 1970s, when
white enrollment in
New Orleans public schools fell by over half and then half again in the following decade, most people have grown up in segregated, private, magnet and now choice / charter schools.
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New York has the most segregated schools in the country: in 2009, black and Latino students in the state had the highest concentration in intensely - segregated public schools (less than 10 %
white enrollment), the lowest exposure to
white students, and the most uneven distribution with
white students across schools.
Recent
enrollment data suggests that twenty years after the start of
New Haven's interdistrict magnet program, only one of the city's interdistrict magnet high schools, ESUMS, is currently meeting the city's objectives of creating racially diverse schools with a minimum of 25 %
white enrollment.