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.
Not exact matches
But it risks dying
on its feet unless the Government starts recognising the role that discriminatory faith schools play in entrenching
ethnic, religious, and social
segregation.
show that allowing free schools to choose all pupils
on religious grounds will lead to increased
ethnic and religious
segregation across England.
Analysis by the British Humanist Association has found that figures provided in the Government's green paper show that allowing free schools to choose all pupils
on religious grounds will lead to increased
ethnic and religious
segregation across England.
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.
Proposed plans to allow faith schools to select all pupils based
on religious grounds will lead to «increased
ethnic and religious
segregation across England», according to the British Humanist Association (BHA).
Today, students from every definable race and
ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called
segregation — as a vocabulary word
on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.
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.
Social and
ethnic segregation is introduced through maps based
on Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago and London.
«Religiously selective schools have been shown time and time again to have a large impact
on segregation on religious,
ethnic,
on socio - economic lines, so allowing more schools to open that are fully religiously selective will only exacerbate those problems.»
Yet, as the report goes
on to note, these state officials, those with the express obligation to reduce
segregation, have consistently chosen to do nothing to prevent charter school
segregation and its effects, including exacerbating racial,
ethnic and economic imbalance in the host school districts.
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 varie
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 varie
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 varied cultures.