Sentences with phrase «of ethnic segregation»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Christians can not claim to be working for justice in our communities if we contribute to segregation and the racial or ethnic division of those communities.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

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.

Knowing that religious selection in admissions creates segregation along class and ethnic lines, having a clear policy in favour of inclusion and taking great care not to allow any state - funded faith schools to have control over its own admissions would also make sense for a Labour approach.

The Fair Housing Equity Assessment examines the roots of Buffalo - Niagara's racial, ethnic and geographic segregation and exclusion, obstacles to solving these issues, and strategies for overcoming these barriers through One Region Forward's regional planning process.

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.

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.

The risks increase with degree of segregation in all racial and ethnic groups, but are strongest for Hispanics, they found.

Segregation still in decline despite decreasing black exposure to white students Percentages of other ethnic groups increasing rapidly

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 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.

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.

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.

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).

Each of these factors influenced the voucher scheme towards a more equitable and democratic design that supported positive attitudes toward ethnic minorities and immigrants and prevented the kind of segregation that is typically observed in voucher programs in other societies.

Segregation of low - income and ethnic minority students makes closing achievement gaps virtually impossible.

In Connecticut, there are laws against both excessive suspensions of students and racial / ethnic segregation of students, particularly for charter schools.

[see above CGS Sec. 10 - 66bb (h)-RSB- But the renewal process for Amistad Academy ignored its exclusionary disciplinary policies, racial and ethnic segregation, and provided no analysis of representative populations of bilingual children and students with disabilities, among others.

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

In other work, her projects examine dynamics of racial / ethnic transition and neighborhood socioeconomic ascent, the neighborhood context of charter expansion, and links between school choice and segregation in neighborhoods and schools.

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.

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.

Knowing what we do about the historical background of housing segregation along with the impact of funding on school quality, it is clear that, across income and racial or ethnic groups, the access to high - scoring schools is severely unequal.

According to the articles «Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path» (Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg, and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, p. 22) and «Overcoming Triple Segregation» (by Patricia Gándara, p. 60), segregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from varieSegregation» (by Patricia Gándara, p. 60), segregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from variesegregation by ethnic background of public schools in the United States is on the upswing, a reality which limits minority students» prospects for a high - quality education and all students» prospects for learning to work and interact with students from varied cultures.

Forthcoming in the June print issue of the American Sociological Review and recently published online, the paper, «Neighborhood Foreclosures, Racial / Ethnic Transitions, and Residential Segregation,» noted that the crisis spurred one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, changes that could alter the complexion of American cities for a generation or more.