Sentences with phrase «with racial segregation»

Those genuinely concerned with the racial segregation in schools should focus their attention on traditional public schools, where the vast majority (97 %) of U.S. students are enrolled.

He's an interesting guy, he seems to be equating being closeted with his growing up in an internment camp during World War II and with racial segregation.

Not exact matches

However, given this particular exclusion has its roots in some dogma with an unfalsifiable premise, your analogy with racial discrimination and segregation isn't a particularly good one.

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»?

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

Kozol shares part of one conversation he had with several high school students about the racial segregation of their neighborhood and school:

By the same token, the decline of liberalism coincided with, and to a large extent was caused by, the growing moral complexity and practical difficulty of pursuing racial justice after segregation had been vanquished.

Even conservative white preachers like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell make a point to condemn racial segregation and do not want to be identified with racism.

Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial [ly] integrated school system.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Wake Up Rockland, one of McWilliams» recent projects, also received attention and provoked controversy with a silent demonstration against racial segregation at the Rockland Kosher Supermarket in Monsey.

Craig Gurian, a lawyer with the Anti-Discrimination Center, launched a lawsuit against the City in 2015, arguing the practice of keeping affordable units in housing lotteries for people from the local community worsens racial segregation, the New York Daily News reported.

Major forces behind this are racial segregation and discrimination, income gaps and social inequality, coupled with a politically powerless and naïve populace unable to advocate for itself.

Even controlling for rates of arrest, the researchers found a strong association between the racial disparity in unarmed fatal police shootings and a range of structural racism indicators, with residential segregation showing the most pronounced association.

Yet the Internet's impact on hate crime was not uniform and was predominantly present in areas with higher levels of racism, identified by the amount of racial segregation present and the proportion of racially charged search terms used.

The schools in the district remain considerably diverse, and while there is evidence of a slight growth in racial segregation, Jefferson County's policy is more effective than most, with segregation levels remaining considerably lower than most large school districts.

Owens said she is working on a similar study of racial segregation trends among households with and without children.

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

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.

Jointly with Philipp Hergovich from the University of Vienna, I have shown with a formal mathematical model how those extra connections can quickly reduce the racial segregation of a society.

The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.

Finally, he writes, we have to combine school improvement with the use of community resources to alleviate the effects of poverty and racial segregation.

With a nod to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning state - imposed racial segregation in schools, the Rodriguez court recognized «the vital role of education in a free society.»

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

There is nothing wrong with this per se, as segregation does lead to inequalities, and those inequalities (in access to good teachers, safe facilities, educational resources, etc.) tend to disadvantage poorer students and racial minorities...

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.

That open access is a deliberate and effective assault on racial inequity associated with the segregation era is an irony not lost on reform advocates.

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

This project, in partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, addresses the effects of LSP vouchers on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of students offered vouchers, as well as racial segregation and the competitive effects on students in public schools.

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.

By contrast, among black students, the benefits of having a black teacher were concentrated in schools with higher levels of disadvantage and racial segregation.

Texas could be a national leader in supporting these innovative schools and it could not come at a better time with race relations suffering across the nation and schools experiencing severe racial segregation.

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 an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawn.

Starting this fall, Louisiana must provide the agency with timely information about the racial background of participating students each year so the Justice Department can monitor the program's effect on school segregation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday night.

When Martin Luther King Jr. said, «We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation,» he wasn't suggesting that black kids need white kids and teachers in the classroom with them to learn.

As school districts grapple with the intransigent problem of racial and socioeconomic segregation, the EACs must continue to play a critical role in providing direct civil rights support to school districts to ensure equitable practices and outcomes for children.

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.

If anything, they should realize that laws that limit school choice by residence have exactly the same results in terms of racial segregation and inferior education as the laws limiting school choice by race that the NAACP is so rightfully famous for doing away with.

It must wrestle with demographics of students and forecasted changes to those demographics, and be explicit about disrupting racial and socioeconomic segregation.

The racial segregation in the school system has lots to do with the slow progress here.

There is no evidence from any other nation that replacing a public system with a privatized choice system produces anything but social, economic and racial segregation.

With the establishment of the Sheff standard for racial integration in 2008, magnet schools have become the state's primary method for reducing racial segregation and promoting integration within the Greater Hartford Region public school system.

The figure below provides an illustration of the degree of racial segregation even among households with the same incomes.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

The NAACP's local branch, along with ivory tower integrationists such as Richard Kahlenberg (who has touted Wake County as an example of the academic success that can come from integration) have essentially accused the board of trying to return back to the racial segregation of the past.

In a city with a dark history of racial segregation, we seek to become a system of schools that represents the racial and socioeconomic diversity of New Orleans.

[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.